Curiosities of Puritan NomenclatureBardsley, Charles Wareing Endell
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Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature
Bardsley, Charles Wareing Endell
Names, Personal -- English
[47] "Faithful Teate was minister at Sudbury, Suffolk, at the time Richard
Sibbes, who was born close by, was growing up."--Sibbes' Works, 1. xxvi.
Nichol, 1862.
[48] Antony a Wood says Robert Abbott, minister at Cranbrook, Kent,
published a quarto sermon in 1626, entitled "Be-thankful London and her
Sisters." When we remember that Warbleton in 1626 had at least a dozen
Be-Thankfuls among its inhabitants, and that Cranbrook was within walking
distance, we see where the title of this discourse was got.
[49] Live-well Chapman was a Fifth Monarchy man. There is still extant a
pamphlet headed "A Declaration of several of the Churches of Christ, and
Godly People, in and about the City of London, concerning the Kingly
Interest of Christ, and the Present Sufferings of His Cause, and Saints in
England. Printed for Live-well Chapman, 1654."
[50] These two were twins:
"1589, Oct. 12. Baptized Fre-gyft and Fear-not, ye children of John
Lulham."--Warbleton.
[51] This, no doubt, will be a relative of the well-known Puritan, Comfort
Starr, born in the adjacent hamlet of Ashford.
[52] A tablet in Northiam Church says--
"In memory of Thankfull Frewen, Esq., patron of, and a generous
benefactor to, this Church: who was many years purse-bearer and
afterwards secretary to Lord Keeper Coventry, in the reign of Charles
the First."
A flat stone in the chancel commemorates the second Thankful:
"Hic situs est vir reverendus Thankfull Frewen hujus ecclesiae per
quinquaginta sex annos rector sanctissimus & doctissimus ... obiit
2{do} Septembris, 1749, anno aetatis 81{mo}."
[53] We have already seen that Stephen Vynall had a daughter baptized
No-merit at Warbleton, September 28, 1589. Heley's influence followed him
to Isfield, as this entry proves.
[54] "1723.--Welthiana Bryan."--Nicholl's "Coll. Top. et Gen.," iii. 250.
[55] Pleasant lasted for some time:
"1757, Jan. 11. Married Thomas Dunn and Pleasant Dadd."--Cant. Cath.
[56] A dozen Freemans may be seen within the limits of half that number of
pages in the Finchley registers. Here is one:
"1603, Feb. 26. Baptized Freeman, filius Freeman Page."
[57] That is, he held him crosswise in his arms.
[58] "And here was 'Bartholomew Fayre' acted to-day, which had not been
these forty years, it being so satyricall against Puritanism, they durst
not till now."--Pepys, Sept. 7, 1661.
[59] That some changed their names for titles of more godly import need
not be doubted. William Jenkin says, "I deny not, but in some cases it may
be lawfull to change our names, or forbear to mention them, either by
tongue or pen: but then we should not be put upon such straits by the
badnesse of our actions (as the most are) which we are ashamed to own,
_but by the consideration of God's glory_, or _the Churches good_, or our
own necessary preservation in time of persecution."--"Exposition of Jude,"
1652, p. 7.
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