In spite of the enormous popularity in England of _ot_ and _et_, they bear no proportion to the number in France. In England our _local_ surnames are two-fifths of the whole. In France _patronymic_ surnames are almost two-fifths of the whole. Terminatives in _on_ or _in_, and _ot_ and _et_, have done this. We in England only adopted double diminutives in two cases, those of _Colinet_ and _Robinet_, or _Dobinet_, and both were rarely used. Robinet has come down to us as a surname; and Dobinet so existed till the middle of the fifteenth century, for one John Dobynette is mentioned in an inventory of goods, 1463 (Mun. Acad. Oxon.). This Dobinet seems to have been somewhat familiarly used, for Dobinet Doughty is Ralph's servant in "Ralph Roister Doister." Matthew Merrygreek says-- "I know where she is: Dobinet hath wrought some wile. _Tibet Talkapace._ He brought a ring and token, which he said was sent From our dame's husband."--Act. iii. sc. 2. Colin is turned into Colinet in Spenser's "Shepherd's Calendar," where Colin beseeches Pan: "Hearken awhile from thy green cabinet, The laurel song of careful Colinet?" Jannet is found as Janniting (Jannetin) once on English soil, for in the "London Chanticleers," a comedy written about 1636, Janniting is the apple-wench. _Welcome_ says-- "Who are they which they're enamoured so with? _Bung._ The one's Nancy Curds, and the other Hanna Jenniting: Ditty and Jenniting are agreed already ... the wedding will be kept at our house."--Scene xiii. But the use of double diminutives was of every-day practice in Normandy and France, and increased their total greatly. I take at random the following _surnames_ (originally, of course, christian names) from the Paris Directory:--Margotin, Marioton, Lambinet (Lambert), Perrinot, Perrotin, Philiponet, Jannotin, Hugonet, Huguenin, Jacquinot, and Fauconnet (English Fulke). Huguenin (little wee Hugh) repeats the same diminutive; Perrinot and Perrotin (little wee Peter) simply reverse the order of the two diminutives. The "marionettes" in the puppet-show take the same liberty with Mariotin (little wee Mary) above mentioned. Hugonet, of course, is the same as Huguenot; and had English, not to say French, writers remembered this old custom, they would have found no difficulty in reducing the origin of the religious sect of that name to an _individual_ as a starting-point. _Guillotin_ (little wee William) belongs to the same class, and descended from a baptismal name to become the surname of the famous doctor who invented the deadly machine that bears his title. I have discovered one instance of this as a baptismal name, viz. Gillotyne Hansake ("Wars of English in France: Henry VI.," vol. ii. p. 531). Returning to England, we find these pet forms in use well up to the Reformation: "Nov., 1543. Item: geven to Fylpot, my Lady of Suffolk's lackaye, vii{s}. vi{d}.