"A man named Sykes, resident in this locality, had four sons whom he named respectively Love-well, Do-well, Die-well, and Fare-well. Sad to say, Fare-well Sykes met an untimely end by drowning, and was buried this week (eleventh Sunday after Trinity) in Lockwood churchyard. The brothers Live-well, Do-well, and Die-well were the chief mourners on the occasion." It seems almost impossible that the father should have restored three of the Puritan names accidentally. Probably he had seen or heard of these names in some Yorkshire church register. One of these names, Farewell, is still used in the county, as the directories show. I see Fare-well Wardley, in Sheffield, in the West Riding Directory for 1867. This closes the exhortatory class. It is both numerous and interesting, and some of its instances grew very familiar, and looked as if they might find a permanent place in our registers. The eighteenth century saw them all succumb, however. (_d._) _Accidents of Birth._ Evidently it was a Puritan notion that a quiverful of children was a matter for thanksgiving. There is a pleasant ring in some of the names selected by religious gossips at this time, or witnesses, as I should rather term them. _Free-gift_ was one such, and was on the point of becoming an accepted English name, when the Restoration stepped in, and it had to follow the way of the others. It began with the Presbyterian clergy, judging by the date of its rise:[50] "1616, ----. Buried Mary, wiffe of Free-gift Mabbe."--Chiddingly, Sussex. "1621, ----. Baptized John, son of Free-gift Bishopp."--Ditto. "1591, Jan. 14. Baptized Fre-gift, sonne of Abraham Bayley."--Warbleton. The will of Free-gift Stacey was proved in 1656 in London; while a subsidy obtained by an unpopular tax on fires, hearths, and stoves in 1670, rates a resident in Chichester thus: "Free-gift Collins, two hearths."--"Suss. Arch. Coll.," xxiv. 81. The last instance I have seen is: "Dec. 4, 1700. The petition of Free-gift Pilkington, wife of Richard Pilkington, late port-master of Ipswich, county Suffolk."--C. S. P. _Good-gift_ was rarer: "1618, March 28. Bapt. John, sonne of Goodgift Gynninges."--Warbleton. One of the earliest Puritan eccentricities was _From-above_, mentioned by Camden as existing in 1614: "1582, March 10. Baptized From-above Hendley."--Cranbrook. A subsidy collected within the rape of Lewes in 1621 records: "From-above Hendle, gent, in landes, 30 4 0."--"Suss. Arch. Coll.," lx. 71. Many of these names suggest thanksgiving for an "addition to the family." _More-fruit_ is one such: "1587, June 6. Baptized More-fruite Stone, of Steven."--Berwick, Sussex. "1592, Oct. 1. Baptized More-fruite Starre."[51]--Cranbrook. "1599, Nov. 4. Baptized More-fruite, d. of Richard Barnet."--Warbleton. "1608, Aug. 28. Baptized More-frute, d. of Rychard Curtes."--Ditto.