_Lettice_ disappeared, to come back as Laetitia in the eighteenth century: "1587, June 19. Married Richard Evannes and Lettis Warren."--St. Peter, Cornhill. _Amery_, or _Emery_, the property of either sex, lost place: "1584, April 9. Buried Amery Martin, widow, of Wilsdon."--St. Peter, Cornhill. "1668. Emerre Bradley, baker, Hartford."--"Tokens of Seventeenth Century." _Avice_ shared the same fate: "Avis Kingston and Amary Clerke, widow, applied for arrears of pay due to their husbands, May 13, 1656."--C. S. P. "1590-1, Jan. Christened Avis, d. of Philip Cliff."--Stepney. "1600, Feb. 6. Baptized Avice, daughter of Thomas Bennett."--St. Columb Major. "1623, August 5. Christened Thomas, the sonne of James Jennets, and Avice his wife."--St. Peter, Cornhill. Thomasine requires a brief notice. Coming into use as a fancy name about 1450, it seems to have met with no opposition, and for a century and a half was a decided success. It became familiar to every district in England, north or south, and is found in the registers of out-of-the-way villages in Derbyshire, as plentifully as in those of the metropolitan churches: "1538, Nov. 30. Married Edward Bashe and Thomeson Agar."--St. Dionis Backchurch. "1582, Nov. 1. Baptized Tamson, daughter of Richard Hodge."--St. Columb Major. "1622, Jan. 19. Christened Thomas, the sonne of Henery Thomson, haberdasher, and of Thomazine his wife."--St. Peter, Cornhill. "1620, Jan. 21. Baptized Johanna, fil. Tamsin Smith, adulterina."--Minster. "1640, Jan. 31. Buried Thomasing, filia William Sympson."--Wirksworth, Derbyshire. In other registers such forms as Thomasena, Thomesin, Thomazin, Tomasin, and Thomasin occur. In Cowley's "Chronicle," too, the name is found: "Then Jone and Jane and Audria, And then a pretty Thomasine, And then another Katharine, And then a long et caetera." V. THE GENERAL CONFUSION. But what a state of confusion does all this reveal! By the time of the Commonwealth, there was the choice of three methods of selection open to the English householder in this matter of names. He might copy the zealot faction, and select his names from the Scriptures or the category of Christian graces; he might rally by the old English gentleman, who at this time was generally a Cavalier, and Dick, Tom, Harry, or Dolly, his children; or he might be careless about the whole matter, and mix the two, according to his caprice or fancy. That Royalist had no bad conception of the state of society in 1648, when he turned off verses such as these: