Adecock is Adam, and Mocock or Mokock is Matthew. In the same way Sander-cock is a diminutive of Sander, Lay-cock of Lawrence, Luccock of Luke, Pidcock and Peacock of Peter, Maycock and Mycock of Matthew, Jeff-cock of Jeffrey, Johncock of John, Hitch-cock or Hiscock or Heacock of Higg or Hick (Isaac), Elcock of Ellis, Hancock or Handcock of Han or Hand (Dutch John), Drocock or Drewcock of Drew, Wilcock of William, Badcock or Batcock of Bartholomew, and Bawcock of Baldwin, Adcock or Atcock of Adam, Silcock of Silas, and Palcock of Paul: "Johannes Palcock, et Beatrix uxor ejus, iiii{d}."--W. D. S. "Ricardus Sylkok, et Matilda uxor ejus, iiii{d}."--W. D. S. The difficulty of identification was manifestly lessened in a village or town where _Bate_ could be distinguished from _Batkin_, and _Batkin_ from _Batcock_. Hence, again, the common occurrence of such a component as _cock_. This diminutive is never seen in the seventeenth century; and yet we have many evidences of its use in the beginning of the sixteenth. The English Bible, with its tendency to require the full name as a matter of reverence, while it supplied new names in the place of the old ones that were accustomed to the desinence, caused this. It may be, too, that the new regulation of Cromwell in 1538, requiring the careful registration of all baptized children, caused parents to lay greater stress on the name as it was entered in the vestry-book. Any way, the sixteenth century saw the end of names terminating in "cock." (_c._) _On or In._ A dictionary instance is "violin," that is, a little viol, a fiddle of four strings, instead of six. This diminutive, to judge from the Paris Directory, must have been enormously popular with our neighbours. Our connection with Normandy and France generally brought the fashion to the English Court, and in habits of this kind the English folk quickly copied their superiors. Terminations in _kin_ and _cock_ were confined to the lower orders first and last. Terminations in _on_ or _in_, and _ot_ or _et_, were the introduction of fashion, and being under patronage of the highest families in the land, naturally obtained a much wider popularity. Our formal registers, again, are of little assistance. Beton is coldly and orthodoxly Beatrice or Beatrix in the Hundred Rolls. Only here and there can we gather that Beatrice was never so called in work-a-day life. In "Piers Plowman" it is said-- "_Beton_ the Brewestere Bade him good morrow." And again, later on: "And bade Bette cut a bough, And beat _Betoun_ therewith." If Alice is Alice in the registrar's hands, not so in homely Chaucer: "This _Alison_ answered: Who is there That knocketh so? I warrant him a thefe." Or take an old Yorkshire will: "Item: to Symkyn, and Watkyn, and Alison Meek, servandes of John of Bolton, to ilk one of yaim, 26{s}. 8{d}."--"Test. Ebor." iii. 21. Surtees Society.