"June, 1537. Item: payed to Typkyn for cherys, xx{d}."--"Privy Purse Expenses, Princess Mary." "1548, July 22. Alson, d. of Jenkin Rowse."--St. Columb Major. "1545, Oct. 3. Baptized Alison, d. of John James."--Ditto.[11] "Ralph Roister Doister," written not earlier than 1545, and not later than 1550, by Nicholas Udall, contains three characters styled Annot Alyface, Tibet Talkapace, and Dobinet Doughty. Christian Custance, Sim Suresby, Madge Mumblecheek, and Gawyn Goodluck are other characters, all well-known contemporary names. In "Thersites," an interlude written in 1537, there is mention of "_Simkin_ Sydnam, Sumnor, That killed a cat at Cumnor." _Jenkin_ Jacon is introduced, also _Robin_ Rover. In a book entitled "Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic" (Henry VIII.), we find a document (numbered 1939, and dated 1526) containing a list of the household attendants and retinue of the king. Even here, although so formal a record, there occurs the name of "Hamynet Harrington, gentleman usher." We may assert with the utmost certainty that, on the eve of the Hebrew invasion, there was not a baptismal name in England of average popularity that had not attached to it in _daily converse_ one or other of these diminutives--_kin_, _cock_, _in_, _on_, _ot_, and _et_; not a name, too, that, before it had thus attached them, had not been shorn of all its fulness, and curtailed to a monosyllabic nick form. Bartholomew must first become Bat before it becomes Batcock, Peter must become Pierre before Perrot can be formed, Nicholas must be abbreviated to Col or Cole before Col or Cole can be styled Colin, and Thomas must be reduced to Tom before Tomkin can make his appearance. Several names had attached to themselves all these enclytics. For instance, Peter is met with, up to the crisis we are about to consider, in the several shapes of Perkin or Parkin, Peacock, Perrot, and Perrin; and William as Willin (now Willing and Willan in our directories), Wilcock, Wilkin, and Wilmot, was familiar to every district in the country. III. SCRIPTURE NAMES ALREADY IN USE AT THE REFORMATION. It now remains simply to consider the state of nomenclature in England at the eve of the Reformation in relation to the Bible. _Four_ classes may be mentioned. (_a._) _Mystery Names._ The leading incidents of Bible narrative were familiarized to the English lower orders by the performance of sacred plays, or mysteries, rendered under the supervision of the Church. To these plays we owe the early popularity of Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Sara, Daniel, Sampson, Susanna, Judith, Hanna or Anna, and Hester. But the Apocryphal names were not frequently used till about 1500. Scarcely any diminutives are found of them. On the other hand, Adam became Adcock and Adkin; Eve, Evott and Evett; Isaac, Hickin, and Higgin, and Higgot, and Higget; Joseph, Joskin; and Daniel, Dankin and Dannet. (_b._) _Crusade Names._