"Lord Downe's child is to be christened this evening. The sponsors I know not, but his three names made me laugh not a little--John Christopher Burton. I wish to God, when he arrives at the years of puberty, he may marry Mary Josephina Antonietta Bentley."--"Memoirs of George Selwyn," by Jesse, quoted by Mr. Waters in "Parish Registers," p. 31. I need scarcely add that three do not nearly satisfy the craving of many people in the nineteenth century, nor did they everybody in the eighteenth: "1781, April 29. Bapt. Charles Caractacus Ostorius Maximilian Gustavus Adolphus, son of Charles Stone, tailor."--Burbage, Wilts. In Beccles Church occurs the following: "1804, Oct. 14. Bapt. Zaphnaphpaaneah Isaiah Obededom Nicodemus Francis Edward, son of Henry and Sarah Clarke." Only Francis Edward could be got in the ordinary place, so the rest had to be furnished in a note at the foot of the page. "On Oct. 8th, 1876, in the revision of the parliamentary list at Preston, a claimant appeared bearing the name of Thomas Hill Joseph Napoleon Horatio Bonaparte Swindlehurst Nelson. The vote was allowed, and the revising barrister ordered the full name to be inserted on the register."--_Manchester Evening News_, October 11, 1876. II. CONJOINED NAMES. Returning to the first half of the seventeenth century, we find strong testimony of the rarity of these double names, and a feeling that there was something akin to illegality in their use, from our registers, wherein an attempt was made to glue two names together as one, without a hyphen or a second capital letter. Take the following, all registered within a generation or two of Camden's remark: "1602, May 24. Baptized Fannasibilla, d. of Thomas Temple."--Sibbesdon, Leicestershire. Here is a palpable attempt to unite Francis (Fanny) and Sybil. "1648, Jan. 25. Baptized Aberycusgentylis, son of Richard Balthropp, gent."--Iver, Buckingham. Here the father has been anxious to commemorate the great Oxford professor, the father of international law, Dr. Abericus Gentilis. He has avoided a breach of supposed national law by writing the two names in one. "1614, Aprill 16. Buried Jockaminshaw Butler, wife of James Butler, potter, in Bishopsgate Street."--St. Peter, Cornhill. The surname of "Shaw" has done service hundreds of times since then as a second baptismal name. "1640, May 7. Baptized Johnamaria, ye son of Frances Ansloe, and Clare his wife."--Cant. Cath. Here again is the inevitable Maria, but so inwoven with John, that Lord Coke's legal maxim could not touch the case. It is the same in the following example:-- "1632, ----. Married John Pell to Ithamaria, d. of Henry Reynolles, of London."--Lower, "Worthies of Sussex," p. 178. One of the most strange samples of conjoined names is this: