Nor can _Emanuel_, or _Angel_, be brought as charges against the Puritans. Both flatly contradicted Cartwright's canon; yet both, and especially the former, have been attributed to the zealots. No names could have been more offensive to them than these. Even Adams, in his "Meditations upon the Creed," while attacking his friends on their eccentricity in preferring "Safe-deliverance" to "Richard," takes care to rebuke those on the other side, who would introduce _Emanuel_, or even _Gabriel_ or _Michael_, into their nurseries: "Some call their sons _Emanuel_: this is too bold. The name is proper to Christ, therefore not to be communicated to any creature." _Emanuel_ was imported from the Continent about 1500: "1545, March 19. Baptized Humphrey, son of Emanuell Roger."--St. Columb Major. The same conclusion must be drawn regarding _Angel_. Adams continues: "Yea, it seems to me not fit for Christian humility to call a man _Gabriel_ or _Michael_, giving the names of angels to the sons of mortality." If the Puritans objected, as they did to a man, to the use of Gabriel and Michael as angelic names, the generic term itself would be still more objectionable: "1645, Nov. 13. Buried Miss Angela Boyce."--Cant. Cath. "1682, April 11. Baptized Angel, d. of Sir Nicholas Butler, K{nt}."--St. Helen, Bishopgate. "Weymouth, March 20, 1635. Embarked for New England: Angell Holland, aged 21 years."--Hotten's "Emigrants," p. 285. In this case we may presume the son, and not the father, had turned Puritan. A curious custom, which terminated soon after Protestantism was established in England, gave rise to several names which read oddly enough to modern eyes. These were titles like Vitalis or Creature--names applicable to either sex. Mr. Maskell, without furnishing instances, says Creature occurs in the registers of All-Hallows, Barking ("Hist. All-Hallows," p. 62). In the vestry-books of Staplehurst, Kent, are registered: "1 Edward VI. Apryle xxvii., there were borne ii. childre of Alex'nder Beeryl: the one christened at home, and so deceased, called Creature; the other christened at church, called John."--Burns, "History of Parish Registers," p. 81. "1550, Nov. 5. Buried Creature, daughter of Agnes Mathews, syngle woman, the seconde childe. "1579, July 19. Married John Haffynden and Creature Cheseman, yong folke."--Staplehurst, Kent. One instance of _Vitalis_ may be given: "Vitalis, son of Richard Engaine, and Sara his wife, released his manor of Dagworth in 1217 to Margery de Cressi."--Blomefield's "Norfolk," vi. 382, 383.