All these names are relics of a custom that is obsolete in England, though not with our neighbours. (_d._) _Ot and Et._ These are the terminations that ran first in favour for many generations. This diminutive _ot_ or _et_ is found in our language in such words as _poppet_, _jacket_, _lancet_, _ballot_, _gibbet_, _target_, _gigot_, _chariot_, _latchet_, _pocket_, _ballet_. In the same way a little page became a _paget_, and hence among our surnames Smallpage, Littlepage, and Paget. Coming to baptism, we find scarcely a single name of any pretensions to popularity that did not take to itself this desinence. The two favourite girl-names in Yorkshire previous to the Reformation were Matilda and Emma. Two of the commonest surnames there to-day are Emmott and Tillot, with such variations as Emmett and Tillett, Emmotson and Tillotson. The archbishop came from Yorkshire. _Tyllot_ Thompson occurs under date 1414 in the "Fabric Rolls of York Minster" (Surtees Society). "Rome, April 27, Eugenius IV. (1433). Dispensation from Selow for Richard de Akerode and Emmotte de Greenwood to marry, they being related in the fourth degree."--"Test. Ebor.," iii. 317. "Licence to the Vicar of Bradford to marry Roger Prestwick and Emmote Crossley. Bannes thrice in one day" (1466).--"Test. Ebor.," iii. 338. Isabella was also popular in Yorkshire: hence our Ibbots and Ibbotsons, our Ibbetts and Ibbetsons. Registrations such as "Ibbota filia Adam," or "Robert filius Ibote," are of frequent occurrence in the county archives. The "Wappentagium de Strafford" has: "Johanna Ibot-doghter, iiii{d}. "Willelmus Kene, et Ibota uxor ejus, iiii{d}. "Thomas Gaylyour, et Ebbot sa femme, iiii{d}." Cecilia became Sissot or Cissot: "Willelmus Crake, & Cissot sa femme, iiii{d}."--W. D. S. In the "Manor of Ashton-under-Lyne" (Chetham Society), penned fortunately for our purpose in every-day style, we have such entries as-- "Syssot, wife of Patrick. "Syssot, wife of Diccon Wilson. "Syssot, wife of Thomas the Cook. "Syssot, wife of Jak of Barsley." Four wives named Cecilia in a community of some twenty-five families will be evidence enough of the popularity of that name. All, however, were known in every-day converse as Sissot. Of other girl-names we may mention Mabel, which from Mab became Mabbott; Douce became Dowcett and Dowsett; Gillian or Julian, from Gill or Jill (whence Jack and Jill), became Gillot, Juliet, and Jowett; Margaret became Margett and Margott, and in the north Magot. Hence such entries from the Yorkshire parchments, already quoted, as-- "Thomas de Balme, et Magota uxor ejus, chapman, iiii{d}. "Hugo Farrowe, et Magota uxor ejus, smyth, iiii{d}. "Johannes Magotson, iiii{d}." Custance became Cussot, from Cuss or Cust, the nick form. The Hundred Rolls contain a "Cussot Colling"--a rare place to find one of these diminutives, for they are set down with great clerkly formality.