"Obedience Newitt, wife of Thomas Newitt, died in 1617, aged 32. "Her name and nature did accord, Obedient was she to her Lord."--Burwash, Sussex. "Add to your faith, virtue," says the Apostle. As a name this grace was late in the field: "1687, May 25. Married Virtue Radford and Susannah Wright."--West. Abbey. "1704, Oct. 20. Buried Virtue, wife of John Higgison."--Marshfield, Glouc. "1709, May 6. Buried Vertue Page."--Finchley. Confidence and Victory were evidently favourites: "1587, Jan. 8. Baptized Confydence, d. of Roger Elliard."--Warbleton. "1770, Nov. 17, died Confidence, wife of John Thomas, aged 61 years."--Bulley, Glouc. "1587, Feb. 8. Buryed Vyctorye Buttres."--Elham, Kent. "1618, Dec. 9. Buryed Victorye Lussendine."--Ditto. "1696, May 17. Bapt. Victory, d. of Joseph Gibbs."--St. Dionis Backchurch. _Perseverance_ went out with the emigrants to New England, but I do not find any instance in the home registers. _Felicity_ appeared in one of our law courts last year, so it cannot be said to be extinct; but there is a touch of irony in the first of the following examples:-- "1604-5, March 15. Baptized Felicity, d. of John Barnes, vagarant."--Stepney. "1590, July 5. Baptized Felycyte Harris."--Cranbrook. _Comfort_ has a pleasant atmosphere about it, and many a parent was tempted to the use of it. It lingered longer than many of its rivals. Comfort Farren's epitaph may be seen on the floor of Tewkesbury Abbey: "Comfort, wife of Abraham Farren, gent., of this Corporation, died August 24, 1720." Again, in Dymock Church we find: "_Comfort_, wife to William Davis, died 14 June, 1775, aged 78 years. "_Comfort_, their daughter, died 9 Feb., 1760, aged 24 years." Nearly 150 years before this, however, Comfort Starr was a name not unknown to the more heated zealots of the Puritan party. He was a native of Ashford, in Kent, and after various restless shiftings as a minister, Carlisle being his head-quarters for a time, went to New Plymouth in the _Mayflower_, in 1620. There he became fellow of Harvard College, but returned to England eventually, and died at Lewes in his eighty-seventh year. Perhaps the most interesting and popular of the grace names was "Repentance." In a "new interlude" of the Reformation, entitled the "Life and Repentance of Marie Magdalene," and published in 1567, one of the chief characters was "Repentance." At the same time Repentance came into font use, and, odd as it may sound, bade fair to become a permanently recognized name in England: "1583, Dec. 8. Married William Arnolde and Repentance Pownoll."--Cant. Cath. "1587, Oct. 22. Baptized Repentance, dather of George Aysherst."--Warbleton. "1588, June 30. Baptized Repentance Water."--Cranbrook. "1597, Aug. 4. Baptized Repentance, daughter of Robert Benham, of Lymhouse."--Stepney.