Take another specimen a few years earlier. In the Chancery suits at the close of Elizabeth's reign, we find a plaintiff named Goddard Freeman, another styled Anketill Brasbridge, a defendant bearing the good old title of Frideswide Heysham, while a fourth endeavours to secure his title to some property under the signature of Avery Howlatt. Hamlett Holcrofte and Hammett Hyde are to be met with (but we have spoken of them), and such other personages as Ellice Heye, Morrice Cowles, and Gervase Hatfield. Within a few pages' limit we come across Dogory Garry, Digory Greenfield, Digory Harrit, and Degory Hollman. These names of Goddard, Anketill, Frideswide, Avery, Hamlet, Ellice, Morrice, Gervase, and Digory were on everybody's lips when Henry VIII. was king. Who can say that they exist now? Only Maurice and Gervase enjoy a precarious existence. A breath of popular disregard would blow them out. Avery held out, but in vain: "Avery Terrill, cooke at ye Falcon, Lothbury, 1650."--"Tokens of Seventeenth Century." But what else do we see in these same registers? We are confronted with pages bearing such names as Esaye Freeman (Isaiah), or Elizar Audly (Eliezer), or Seth Awcocke, or Urias Babington, or Ezekias Brent,--and this not forty years after the Reformation. These men must have been baptized in the very throes of the great contest. Another "Calendar of State Papers," bearing dates between 1590 and 1605, contains the names of Colet Carey (1580) and Amice Carteret (1599), alongside of whom stands Aquila Wyke (1603). Here once more we are reminded of two pretty baptismal names that have gone the way of the others. It makes one quite sad to think of these national losses. Amice, previous to the Reformation, was a household favourite, and Colet a perfect pet. Won't somebody come to the rescue? Why on earth should the fact that the Bible has been translated out of Latin into English strip us of these treasures? Turn once more to our church registers. Few will recognize Thurstan as a baptismal name: "1544, May 11. Married Thryston Hogkyn and Letyce Knight."--St. Dionis Backchurch. "1573, Nov. 15. Wedding of Thrustone Bufford and Annes Agnes Dyckson."--St. Peter, Cornhill. Drew and Fulk are again found: "1583, April 16. Buried Drew Hewat, sonne of Nicholas Hewat. "1583, March 8. Buried Foulke Phillip, sonne of Thomas Phillip, grocer."--St. Peter, Cornhill. Take the following, dropped upon hap-hazard as I turn the pages of St. Dionis Backchurch: "1540, Oct. 25. Buried Jacomyn Swallowe. "1543, Aug. 3. Buried Awdrye Hykman. "1543, June 12. Married Bonyface Meorys and Jackamyn Kelderly. "1546, Nov. 23. Christened Grizill, daughter of--Deyne. "1557, Nov. 8. Buried Austin Clarke. "1567, April 22. Married Richard Staper and Dennis Hewyt. "1573, Sep. 25. Married John Carrington and Gyllian Lovelake. "1574, Oct. 23. Buried Joyce, d. of John Bray.