III. SCRIPTURE NAMES ALREADY IN USE AT THE REFORMATION 34 (_a._) Mystery Names 34 (_b._) Crusade Names 35 (_c._) The Saints' Calendar 36 (_d._) Festival Names 36 CHAPTER I. THE HEBREW INVASION. I. THE MARCH OF THE ARMY 38 II. POPULARITY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT 59 III. OBJECTIONABLE SCRIPTURE NAMES 70 IV. LOSSES 76 (_a._) The Destruction of Pet Forms 76 (_b._) The Decrease of Nick Forms 82 (_c._) The Decay of Saint and Festival Names 92 (_d._) The Last of some Old Favourites 99 V. THE GENERAL CONFUSION 109 CHAPTER II. PURITAN ECCENTRICITIES. I. INTRODUCTORY 117 II. ORIGINATED BY THE PRESBYTERIAN CLERGY 121 III. CURIOUS NAMES NOT PURITAN 128 IV. INSTANCES 134 (_a._) Latin Names 134 (_b._) Grace Names 138 (_c._) Exhortatory Names 155 (_d._) Accidents of Birth 166 (_e._) General 176 V. A SCOFFING WORLD 179 (_a._) The Playwrights 182 (_b._) The Sussex Jury 191 (_c._) Royalists with Puritan Names 194 VI. BUNYAN'S DEBT TO THE PURITANS 198 VII. THE INFLUENCE OF PURITANISM ON AMERICAN NOMENCLATURE 201 EPILOGUE. DOUBLE CHRISTIAN NAMES: THEIR RISE AND PROGRESS. I. ROYAL DOUBLE NAMES 213 II. CONJOINED NAMES 222 III. HYPHENED NAMES 224 IV. THE DECAY OF SINGLE PATRONYMICS IN BAPTISM 228 V. THE INFLUENCE OF FOUNDLING NAMES UPON DOUBLE BAPTISMAL NAMES 233 INDEX 239 CURIOSITIES OF PURITAN NOMENCLATURE. PROLOGUE. THE PET-NAME EPOCH IN ENGLAND.