"They which present unto baptism, ought to be persuaded not to give those that are baptized the names of God, or of Christ, or of angels, or of holy offices, as of baptist, evangelist, etc., nor such as savour of paganism or popery: but chiefly such whereof there are examples, in the Holy Scriptures, in the names of those who are reported in them to have been godly and virtuous."--Neale, vol. v. Appendix, p. 15. Nothing can be more precise than this. To the strict Puritan to reject the Richards, Mileses, and Henrys of the Teutonic, and the Bartholomews, Simons, Peters, and Nicholases of the ecclesiastic class, was to remove the Canaanite out of the land. How early this "article of religion" was obeyed, one or two quotations will show. Take the first four baptismal entries in the Canterbury Cathedral register: "1564, Dec. 3. Abdias, the sonne of Robert Pownoll. "1567, April 26. Barnabas, the sonne of Robert Pownoll. "1569, June 1. Ezeckiell, the sonne of Robert Pownoll. "1572, Feb. 10. Posthumus, the sonne of Robert Pownoll." Another son seems to have been Philemon: "1623, April 27. John, the sonne of Philemon Pownoll." A daughter "Repentance" must be added: "1583, Dec. 8. Married William Arnolde and Repentance Pownoll." Take another instance, a little later, from the baptisms of St. Peter's, Cornhill: "1589, Nov. 2. Bezaleell, sonne of Michaell Nichollson, cordwayner. "1599, Sep. 23. Aholiab, sonne of Michaell Nicholson, cordwainer. "1595, May 18. Sara, daughter of Michaell Nichollson, cobler. "1599, Nov. 1. Buried Rebecca, daughter of Michaell Nicholson, cordwainer, 13 yeares." Rebecca, therefore, would be baptized in 1586. Sara and Aholiab died of the plague in 1603. Both old Robert Pownoll and the cobler must have been Puritans of a pronounced type. The Presbyterian clergy were careful to set an example of right name-giving: "1613, July 28. Baptized Jaell, daughter of Roger Mainwaring, preacher."--St. Helen, Bishopsgate. "1617, Jan. 25. Baptized Ezekyell, sonne of Mr. Richard Culverwell, minister."--St. Peter, Cornhill. "1582, ----. Buried Zachary, sonne of Thomas Newton, minister."--Barking, Essex. A still more interesting proof comes from Northampton. As an example of bigotry it is truly marvellous. On July 16, 1590, Archbishop Whitgift furnished the Lord Treasurer with the following, amongst many articles against Edmond Snape, curate of St. Peter's, in that town: "Item: Christopher Hodgekinson obteyned a promise of the said Snape that he would baptize his child; but Snape added, saying, 'You must then give it a christian name allowed in the Scriptures.' Then Hodgekinson told him that his wife's father, whose name was Richard, desired to have the giving of that name." At the time of service Snape proceeded till they came to the place of naming: they said "Richard;"