"1553, May 29. Baptized Honour, d. of Robert Sexton."--St. Columb Major. However this may be, we only find the cardinal virtues at the beginning of the movement--those which are popular in some places to this day, and still maintain a firm hold in America, borne thither by the Puritan emigrants. The three Graces, and Grace itself, took root almost immediately as favourites. Shakespeare seems to have been aware of it, for Hermione says-- "My last good deed was to entreat his stay: What was my first? It has an elder sister, Or I mistake you--O would her name were Grace!" "Winter's Tale," Act i. sc. 2. "1565, March 19. Christening of Grace, daughter of -- Hilles."--St. Peter, Cornhill. "1574, Jan. 29. Baptized Grace, daughter of John Russell."--St. Columb Major. "1588, Aug. 1. Married Thomas Wood and Faythe Wilson."--St. Dionis Backchurch. "1565, ----. Baptized Faith, daughter of Thomas and Agnes Blomefield."--Rushall, Norfolk. "1567, Aprill 17. Christening of Charity, daughter of Randoll Burchenshaw."--St. Peter, Cornhill. "1571, ----. Baptized Charity, daughter of Thomas Blomefield."--Rushall, Norfolk. "1598, Nov. 19. Baptized Hope, d. of John Mainwaringe."--Cant. Cath. "1636, Nov. 25. Buried Hope, d. of Thomas Alford, aged 23."--Drayton, Leicester. The registers of the sixteenth and seventeenth century teem with these; sometimes boys received them. The Rev. Hope Sherhard was a minister in Providence Isle in 1632 ("Cal. S. P. Colonial," 1632). We may note that the still common custom of christening trine-born children by these names dates from the period of their rise:[40] "1639, Sep. 7. Baptized Faith, Hope, and Charity, daughters of George Lamb, and Alice his wife."--Hillingdon. "1666, Feb. 22. -- Finch, wife of -- Finch, being delivered of three children, two of them were baptized, one called Faith, and the other Hope; and the third was intended to be called Charity, but died unbaptized."--Cranford. _Vide_ Lyson's "Middlesex," p. 30. Mr. Lower says ("Essays on English Surnames," ii. 159)-- "At Charlton, Kent, three female children produced at one birth received the names of Faith, Hope, and Charity." Thomas Adams, in his sermon on the "Three Divine Sisters," says-- "They shall not want prosperity, That keep faith, hope, and charity." Perhaps some of these parents remembered this. Faith and Charity are both mentioned as distinctly Puritan sobriquets in the "Psalm of Mercie," a political poem: "'A match,' quoth my sister Joyce, 'Contented,' quoth Rachel, too: Quoth Abigaile, 'Yea,' and Faith, 'Verily,' And Charity, 'Let it be so.'" _Love_, as the synonym of Charity, was also a favourite. Love Atkinson went out to Virginia with the early refugees (Hotten, "Emigrants," p. 68).