"Betty Trevor, wife of the Hon. John Trevor, eldest d. of Sir Thomas Frankland, of Thirkleby, in the county of York, Baronet, ob. Dec. 28, 1742, aetat. 25."--"Suss. Arch. Coll.," xvii. 148. Bess was forgotten, and it was not till the present century that, Betty having become the property of the lower orders, who had soon learnt to copy their betters, the higher classes fell back once more on the Bessie of Reformation days. Meanwhile other freaks of fancy had a turn. Bessie and Betty were dropped into a mill, and ground out as Betsy. This, after a while, was relegated to the peasantry and artisans north of Trent. Then Tetty and Tetsy had an innings. Dr. Johnson always called his wife Tetty. Writing March 28, 1753, he says-- "I kept this day as the anniversary of my Tetty's death, with prayer and tears in the morning." Eliza arose before Elizabeth died; was popular in the seventeenth, much resorted to in the eighteenth, and is still familiar in the nineteenth century. Thomas Nash, in "Summer's Last Will and Testament," has the audacity to speak of the queen as-- "that Eliza, England's beauteous queen, On whom all seasons prosperously attend." Dr. Johnson, in an epigram anent Colley Cibber and George II., says-- "Augustus still survives in Maro's strain, And Spenser's verse prolongs Eliza's reign." But by the lexicographer's day, the poorer classes had ceased to recognize that Eliza and Betty were parts of one single name. They took up each on her own account, as a separate name, and thus Betty and Eliza were commonly met with in the same household. This is still frequently seen. The _Spectator_, the other day, furnished a list of our commonest font names, wherein Elizabeth is placed fourth, with 4610 representatives in every 100,000 of the population. Looking lower down, we find "Eliza" ranked in the twenty-first place with 1507. This is scarcely fair. The two ought to be added together; at least, it perpetuates a misconception. CHAPTER II. PURITAN ECCENTRICITIES. "And we have known Williams and Richards, names not found in sacred story, but familiar to our country, prove as gracious saints as any Safe-deliverance, Fight-the-good-fight-of-faith, or such like, which have been rather descriptions than names."--THOMAS ADAMS, _Meditations upon the Creed_, 1629. "In giving names to children, it was their opinion that _heathenish names_ should be avoided, as not so fit for Christians; and also the names of God, and Christ, and angels, and the peculiar offices of the Mediator,"--NEAL, _History of the Puritans_, vol. 1, ch. v. 1565. I. INTRODUCTORY.