The _nick_ forms are still familiar in many instances, though almost entirely confined to such names as have descended from that day to the present. We still talk of Bob, and Tom, and Dick, and Jack. The introduction of Bible names at the Reformation did them much harm. But the Reformation, and the English Bible combined, utterly overwhelmed the _pet_ desinences, and they succumbed. Emmot and Hamlet lived till the close of the seventeenth century, but only because they had ceased to be looked upon as altered forms of old favourite names, and were entered in vestry books on their own account as orthodox proper names. II. PET FORMS. These pet desinences were of four kinds. (_a_) _Kin._ The primary sense of _kin_ seems to have been relationship: from thence family, or offspring. The phrases "from generation to generation," or "from father to son," in "Cursor Mundi" find a briefer expression: "This writte was gett fra kin to kin, That best it cuth to haf in min." The next meaning acquired by _kin_ was child, or "young one." We still speak in a diminutive sense of a manikin, kilderkin, pipkin, lambkin, jerkin, minikin (little minion), or doitkin. Appended to baptismal names it became very familiar. "A litul soth Sermun" says-- "Nor those prude yongemen That loveth Malekyn, And those prude maydenes That loveth Janekyn: * * * Masses and matins Ne kepeth they nouht, For Wilekyn and Watekyn Be in their thouht." Unquestionably the incomers from Brabant and Flanders, whether as troopers or artisans, gave a great impulse to the desinence. They tacked it on to everything: "_Rutterkin_ can speke no Englyssh, His tongue runneth all on buttyred fyssh, Besmeared with grece abowte his dysshe Like a rutter hoyda." They brought in Hankin, and Han-cock, from Johannes; not to say Baudkin, or Bodkin, from Baldwin. _Baudechon le Bocher_ in the Hundred Rolls, and _Simmerquin Waller_, lieutenant of the Castle of Harcourt in "Wars of the English in France," look delightfully Flemish. Hankin is found late: "Thus for her love and loss poor Hankin dies, His amorous soul down flies." "Musarum Deliciae," 1655.