Curiosities of Puritan NomenclatureBardsley, Charles Wareing Endell
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Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature
Bardsley, Charles Wareing Endell
Names, Personal -- English
"1608, Nov. 17. Baptized Hatill, sonne to Antony
Robinson."--Middleton-Cheney.
As Middleton-Cheney is a mere outlying parish from Banbury, I think we may
see whence Hate-evil Greenhill's name was derived.
Returning once more to Warbleton, _Lament_ is so common there, as in other
places, that it would be absurd to suppose the mother had died in
childbirth in every instance. A glance at the register of deaths disproves
the idea. The fact is _Lament_ was used, like Repent, as a serious call to
godly sorrow for sin:
"1594, July 22. Baptized Lament, d. of Antony Foxe.
"1598, May 14. Baptized Lament, d. of John Fauterell.
"1600, M{ch} 29. Baptized Lament, d. of Anne Willard."
But we must not linger too much at Warbleton.
_Live-well_ commanded much attention. Neither sex could claim the monopoly
of it, as my examples prove. At the beginning of Charles II.'s reign, a
warrant was abroad for the capture of one Live-well Chapman, a seditious
printer. In such a charge it is possible he fulfilled the pious injunction
of his god-parent:
"1662-3, March 9. Warrant to apprehend Live-well Chapman,[49] with all
his printing instruments and materials."--C. S. P.
He is mentioned again:
"1663, Nov. 24. Warrant to Sir Edward Broughton to receive Live-well
Chapman, and keep him close prisoner for seditious practices."--C. S.
P.
This is no unique case. Live-well Sherwood, an alderman of Norwich, was
put on a commission for sequestering papists in 1643 (Scobell's "Orders of
Parl.," p. 38).
Again the name occurs:
"1702, Oct. 15. Thomas Halsey, of Shadwell, widower, to Live-well
Prisienden, of Stepney."--St. Dionis Backchurch.
_Love-God_ is found twice, at least, for letters of administration in the
case of one Love-God Gregory were granted in 1654. Also is found:
"1596, March 6. Baptized Love-God, daughter of Hugh Walker,
vicar."--Berwick, Sussex.
_Do-good_ is exhortatory enough, but it rather smacks of works; hence,
possibly, the reason why I have only seen it once. A list of the trained
bands under Lord Zouch, Lord Warden of Hastings, 1619, includes--
"_Musketts_, James Knight, Doo-good Fuller, Thomas Pilcher."--"Arch.
Soc. Coll." (Sussex), xiv. 102.
_Fare-well_ seems a shade more worldly than Live-well, but was common
enough:
"1589, July 16, Baptized Fare-well, son of Thomas Hamlen, gent."--St.
Dunstan-in-the-West, London.
"1723, Sep. 5. Buried Mr. Fare-well Perry, rector of St.
Peter's."--Marlborough.
A writer in _Notes and Queries_, September 9, 1865 (Mr. Lloyd of
Thurstonville), says--
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