It is curious to notice that Mr. Hovenden, in his "Canterbury Register," published 1878, for the Harleian Society, has the following entries:-- "1627, Aprill 3. Christened Ham'on, the sonn of Richard Struggle." "1634. Jan. 18. Christened Damaris, daughter of Mr. Ham'on Leucknor." Turning to the index, the editor has styled them _Hamilton_ Struggle and _Hamilton_ Leucknor. Ham'on, of course, is Hammon, or Hammond. I may add that some ecclesiastic, a critic of my book on "English Surnames," in the _Guardian_, rebuked me for supposing that Emmot could be from Emma, and calmly put it down as a form of Aymot! What can prove the effect of the Reformation on old English names as do such incidents as these? An English monarch styled his favourite Peter Gaveston as "Piers," a form that was sufficiently familiar to readers of history; but when an antiquary, some few years ago, found this same Gaveston described as "Perot," it became a difficulty to not a few. The Perrots or Parratts of our London Directory might have told them of the old-fashioned diminutive that had been knocked on the head with a Hebrew Bible. Collet, from Nicholas, used as a feminine name, died out also. The last instance I know of is-- "1629, Jan. 15. Married Thomas Woollard and Collatt Hargrave."--St. Peter, Cornhill. Colin, the other pet form, having got into our pastoral poetry, lingered longer, and may be said to be still alive: "1728. Married Colin Foster and Beulah Digby."--Somerset House Chapel. The last Wilmot I have discovered is a certain Wilmote Adams, a defendant in a Chancery suit at the end of Elizabeth's reign ("Chancery Suits: Elizabeth"), and the last Philpot is dated 1575: "1575, Aug. 26. Christened Philpott, a chylde that was laide at Mr Alderman Osberne's gatt."--St. Dionis Backchurch. All the others perished by the time James I. was king. Guy, or Wyatt, succumbed entirely, and the same may be said of the rest. Did we require further confirmation of this, I need only inquire: Would any Yorkshireman now, as he reads over shop-fronts in towns like Leeds or Bradford, or in the secluded villages of Wensleydale or Swaledale, the surnames of Tillot and Tillotson, Emmett and Emmotson, Ibbott, Ibbet, Ibbs, and Ibbotson, know that, twenty years before the introduction of our English Bible, these were not merely the familiar pet names of Matilda, Emma, and Isabella, but that as a trio they stood absolutely first in the scale of frequency? Nay, they comprised more than forty-five per cent. of the female population.