"1547, Jan. 30. Married Hillarye Finch and Jane Whyte."--St. Dionis Backchurch. "1557, June 27. Wedding of Hillary Wapolle and Jane Garret."--St. Peter, Cornhill. "1593, Jan. 20. Christening of Hillary, sonne of Hillary Turner, draper."--Ditto. Bride is rarely found in England now: "1556, May 22. Baptized Bryde, daughter of -- Stoakes. "1553, Nov. 27. Baptized Bryde, daughter of -- Faunt."--St. Peter, Cornhill. Benedict, which for three hundred years had been known as Bennet, as several London churches can testify, became well-nigh extinct; but the feminine Benedicta, with Bennet for its shortened form, suddenly arose on its ashes, and flourished for a time: "1517, Jan. 28. Wedding of William Stiche and Bennet Bennet, widow."--St. Peter, Cornhill. "1653, Sep. 29. Married Richard Moone to Benedicta Rolfe."--Cant. Cath. "1575, Jan. 25. Baptized Bennett, son of John Langdon."--St. Columb Major. These feminines are sometimes bothering. Look, for instance, at this: "1596, Feb. 6. Wedding of William Bromley and Mathew Barnet, maiden, of this parish."--St. Peter, Cornhill. "1655, Sep. 24. Married Thomas Budd, miller, and Mathew Larkin, spinster."--Ditto. The true spelling should have been Mathea, which, previous to the Reformation, had been given to girls born on St. Matthew's Day.[23] The nick form _Mat_ changed sexes. In "Englishmen for my Money" Walgrave says-- "Nay, stare not, look you here: no monster I, But even plain Ned, and here stands Mat my wife." Appoline, all of whose teeth were extracted at her martyrdom with pincers, was a favourite saint for appeal against toothache. In the Homily "Against the Perils of Idolatry," it is said-- "All diseases have their special saints, as gods, the curers of them: the toothache, St. Appoline."[24] Scarcely any name for girls was more common than this for a time; up to the Commonwealth period it contrived to exist. Take St. Peter, Cornhill, alone: "1593, Jan. 13. Christened Apeline, d. of John Moris, clothworker. "1609, M{ch}. 11. Christened Apoline, d. of Will{m}. Burton, marchant. "1617, June 29. Buried Appelyna, d. of Thomas Church." Names from the great Church festivals fared as badly as those from the hagiology. The high day of the ecclesiastical calendar is Easter. We have more relics of this festival than any other. Pasche Oland or Pascoe Kerne figure in the Chancery suits of Elizabeth. Long before this the Hundred Rolls had given us a _Huge fil. Pasche_, and a contemporary record contained an _Antony Pascheson_. The different forms lingered till the Commonwealth: "1553, M{ch}. 23. Baptized Pascall, son of John Davye."--St. Dionis Backchurch. "1651, M{ch}. 18. Married Thomas Strato and Paskey Prideaux."--St. Peter's, Cornhill. "1747, May 4. Baptized Rebekah, d. of Pasko and Sarah Crocker."--St. Dionis Backchurch.