Noel shared the same fate. The Hundred Rolls furnish a Noel de Aubianis, while the "Materials for a History of Henry VII." (p. 503) mentions a Nowell Harper: "1486, July 16. General pardon to Nowell Harper, late of Boyleston, co. Derby, gent." "1545, Dec. 20. Baptized Nowell, son of William Mayhowe."--St. Columb Major. "1580, March 1. Baptized James, son of Nowell Mathew."--Ditto. "1627. Petition of Nowell Warner."--"C. S. P. Domestic," 1627-8. Noel still struggled gamely, and died hard, seeing the eighteenth century well in: "1706, April 23. Noell Whiteing, son of Noell and Ann Whiteing, linendraper, baptized."--St. Dionis Backchurch. Again the Reformation, apart from Puritanism, had much to do with the decay of these names. (_d._) _The Last of some Old Favourites._ There were some old English favourites that the Reformation and the English Bible did not immediately crush. Thousands of men were youths when the Hebrew invasion set in, and lived unto James's reign. Their names crop up, of course, in the burial registers. Others were inclined to be tenacious over family favourites. We must be content, in the records of Elizabeth's and even James's reign, to find some old friends standing side by side with the new. The majority of them were extra-Biblical, and therefore did not meet with the same opposition as those that savoured of the old ecclesiasticism. Nevertheless, this new fashion was telling on them, and of most we may say, "Their places know them no more." Looking from now back to then, we see this the more clearly. We turn to the "Calendar of State Papers," and we find a grant, dated November 5, 1607, to _Fulk_ Reade to travel four years. Shortly afterwards (July 15, 1609), we come across a warrant to John Carse, of the benefit of the recusancy of _Drew_ Lovett, of the county of Middlesex. Casting our eye backwards we speedily reach a grant or warrant in 1603, wherein _Gavin_[26] Harvey is mentioned. In 1604 comes _Ingram_ Fyser. One after another these names occur within the space of five years--names then, although it was well in James's reign, known of all men, and borne reputably by many. But who will say that Drew, or Fulk, or Gavin, or Ingram are alive now? How they were to be elbowed out of existence these very same records tell us; for within the same half-decade we may see warrants or grants relating to _Matathias_ Mason (April 7, 1610) or _Gersome_ Holmes (January 23, 1608). _Jethro_ Forstall obtains licence, November 12, 1604, to dwell in one of the alms-rooms of Canterbury Cathedral; while _Melchizedec_ Bradwood receives sole privilege, February 18, 1608, of printing Jewel's "Defence of the Apology of the English Church." The enemy was already within the bastion, and the call for surrender was about to be made.