Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature

tgift" (i. 255) we find

s were these: William Hopkinson, vicar of Salehurst; Samuel Norden, parson of Hamsey; Antony Hobson, vicar of Leominster; Thomas Underdown, parson of St. Mary'

e commissary, they were summoned to Canterbury, December 6, 1583, and subscribed. Both being married men, with young f

s (Rom. xvi. 12), the daughter of

ed Stedfast, the sonne of

Renewed, the doughter of W

ighe, the sonne of Willm. Hopkinson, m

tant, filia Thom? Lo

a Thom? Lorde, baptisata fu

ghter of Mr. John Lorde, minis

date when the new custom arose, and are patronized by three ministe

g grace-names for his flock shortly before the birth of

erceye, the sonne of T

eased, the dather of

nie, the dather of Th

not, the sonne of Tho

e exegesis of justification by faith without the deeds of the law. Sorry-for-sin Coupard was a peripatetic exhortation to repentance, a

ention to Sussex and Ke

ed Continent, daughter

Christophilus, son of Hug

t who would inflict such a name on an infant daughter. They did not think s

from 1583 to 1628, and author of "Grounds and Principles of the Christian Religion," had

tized Accepted, so

Thankful, sonne of John

York, being prebend designate

o Accepted Frewen of a prebend in C

tagu, "Prerog. Ct. of Cant.," and folio 25, Harte, ditto), will be found references to "More-f

type. In 1583 we find him at Cranbrook, in Kent. An account of his sayings and doings

f all such as go about to take away from the ministers of the

s alongside this passage

enner: Joy-againe, From-above, More

to his own children, as Cranbr

zed More-fruit, son o

int-not, fil. Mr. Dudley F

urdy spirit of nonconformity. After an imprisonment of twelve month

ce Camden derived his information upon the subject. In his quaint "Remaines," publish

ruit, Tribulation, The-Lord-is-near, More-triale, Discipline, Joy-againe, From-above, which have lately b

y gave Fenner's selectio

ccurs. John Press was incumbent of St. M

ifie, son of Mr. Jo

. But such an eccentricity is to be expected in the parish over which Wheatley preside

came I, O

aw a Puri

f his cat

of a mouse

hasize is that this Hopeful

ed Hope-full, daughter

ed "a constant and faithfull preacher of the Gospell of Jesus Christ, even to his extreame old age, and for some yeares afte

race, daughter of

28. Henry, s

. Magdalen, da

Christian, dau

ith-my-joy, daugh

l 3. John,

e, daughter of Myster A

5. Jobe, s

Theophilus,

Priscilla, daught

19. Nathaniel

Presela, daugh

nd child by the ungodly agnomen of Henry, we are not informed.

n. We have only to pitch upon a minister who came under the archbishop's or Lord Treasurer's notice as disaffected, seek out the church over which he presided, scan the register of baptisms during the years of his incumben

d left ineffaceable impressions. The second stage of Puritan excess, names that savour of eccentricity and fanaticism combined, scarcely reached England north of Trent, and, for lack of volume, have left but the faintest traces. They lasted long enough to cover what may be fairly called an epoch, and extended just far enough to embrace a province. The epoc