Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature

, must be placed under a different category. For instance, original sin and the Ninth Arti

ucted from the Greek origines

ainton, are a case in point. The eldest son for three generations bore the name; viz. Original Bellamy, buried at Stainton, September 12, 1619, aged 80; Original, his son and heir, the record of whose death I cannot find; and Original, his son and heir, who was baptized December 29, 1606. The first

tance occur

d to St. Christopher's, imbarqued in the Matthew of London, R

yeres," etc.-Hotten

e of the abstract virtues, such as Prudence and Temperance. The learned compiler of th

euce Whitley, widow of Thomas

is a bewildered misreading on the compiler's part of Sense, and Sense is an English dress of the foreign Senchia, or Sancho, still familiar t

ptized Saints, d.

. Buried Sence

ried Matthew Draper

ed Sence, d. of John Bow

's Arms, Abbey Milton."-"Tok

tion of Mrs. Zanc

liar to Camden i

ta, that is, Holy."

iciently odious to the Presbyterians to be carefully rejected by them in the sixteenth century. Men wh

to the zealots. No names could have been more offensive to them than these. Even Adams, in his "Meditations upon the Creed," while attacking his friends on their eccentrici

bold. The name is proper to Christ, therefo

ted from the Cont

Humphrey, son of Emanuel

st be drawn regarding

ility to call a man Gabriel or Michael, giving

he use of Gabriel and Michael as angelic names, the

ried Miss Angela B

el, d. of Sir Nicholas Butler

r New England: Angell Holland, aged 21

me the son, and not the f

o modern eyes. These were titles like Vitalis or Creature-names applicable to either sex. Mr. Maskell, without furnishing instances, says Cr

: the one christened at home, and so deceased, called Creature; the other chr

, daughter of Agnes Mathews, s

ffynden and Creature Cheseman,

of Vitalis

e, released his manor of Dagworth in 1217 to Marge

n before birth, in cases when it was feared, from the condition of the mother, they might not be delivered alive. Being christened before th

immineat, baptizetur in capite, nec postea si vivus evaserit, erit iterum baptizandus. At si al

just quoted, retained the names given to them, and underwent no second baptism. If the sex

i Humfrey filia ejus qu? nominata fuit Crea

Christi, filia Laurentii

form occu

Chylde-of-God, filiu

infants, and children dying in their infancy, shall undoubtedly be saved thereby (i.e. baptism), and else not," it was natural that such a delicate ceremonial as