The character of all these names is sufficient proof of their rarity. All belong, with one exception, to the higher ranks of society. All were called after the children in the royal nursery, or Maria or Posthuma was the second component. Several formed the double name with both. It seems certain that at first it was expected that, if people in high life were to give encouragement to the new fashion, they must do so within certain carefully defined limits. As for any lower class, it was never imagined that they would dream of aspiring to such a daring innovation. The earliest instance of this class, I find, still has Mary for its second component, and commemorates two English queens: "1667, Jan. 12. Baptized Elizabeth Mary, being of the age of 18 and upwards, daughter to John Allen, and Emm his wife, both of them being pro-baptists."--Cant. Cath. Even to the close of the seventeenth century, if a middle-class man gave his child a double name, it must be to commemorate royalty: "1696, June 4. Baptized William Henry, son of Mr. Jacob Janeway, and Francis his wife."--Cant. Cath. William III. was christened William Henry. Speaking of Mary's husband, we may add that two of the most familiar conjunctions of the present day among the middle and lower classes, that of Anna Maria or Mary Ann, arose similarly. In Italy and France the two went together a hundred years earlier, in connection with the Virgin and her mother. In England they are only found since 1700, being used as commemorative of the sisters Anne and Mary, both queens. Like William Henry, the combination has been popular ever since: "1717, Feb. 15. Christened Anne-Mary, d. of James Hebert, mercer. "1729, March 30. Christened Anna-Maria, d. of Thomas and Mary Hoare, pewterer."--St. Dionis Backchurch. The clerk of Finchley Church could not understand this conjunction--not to add that his education seems to have been slightly neglected: "1715, Feb. 26. Baptized Anammeriah, d. of Thomas and Eliz. Biby. "1716, M{ch}. 17. Baptized Anameriah, d. of Richard and Sarah Bell." These are the first double names to be found in this register. The Latin form represents the then prevailing fashion. There was not a girl's name in use that was not Latinized. Goldsmith took off the custom in his "Vicar of Wakefield," in the names of Sophia, Olivia, and Carolina Wilhelmina Amelia Skeggs. The latter hit at the new rage for double and treble baptismal names also; for the day came when two names were not enough. In 1738 George III. was christened George William Frederic. Gilly Williams, writing to George Selwyn, December 12, 1764, says--