We have already referred to More-fruit Fenner, christened about the same time. The great command to Adam and Eve was, "Multiply, and replenish the earth." Some successor of Thomas Heley thought it no harm to emphasize this at the font: "1677, May 14. Buried Replenish, ye wife of Robert French." But "Increase" or "Increased" was the representative of this class of thanksgiving names, in palpable allusion to Psa. cxv. 14: "The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children." I could easily furnish the reader with half a hundred instances. It is probable Thomas Heley was the inventor of it. The earliest example I can find is that of his own child: "1587, March 26. Baptized Increased, dather of Thomas Helley, minister. "1637, Sep. 15. Buried Increase, wife of Robard Barden. "1589, Apr. 13. Baptized Increased, d. of John Gynninges."--Warbleton. One or two instances from other quarters may be noted: "1660, June. Petition of Increased Collins, for restoration to the keepership of Mote's Bulwark, Dover."--C. S. P. Dr. Increase Mather, of the Liverpool family of that name, will be a familiar figure to every student of Puritan history. In 1685 he returned from America to thank King James for the Toleration Act. Through him it became a popular name in New England, although Increase Nowell, who obtained a charter of appropriation of Massachusetts Bay, March 4, 1628, and emigrated from London, may have helped in the matter (Neal's "New England," p. 124). The perils of childbirth are marked in the thanksgiving name of Deliverance. So early as 1627 the will of Deliverance Wilton was proved in London. Camden, too, writing in 1614, says "Delivery" was known to him; while Adams, whose Puritan proclivities I have previously hinted at, preaching in London in 1626, asserts that Safe-deliverance existed to his knowledge ("Meditations upon the Creed"). Deliverance crossed the Atlantic with the Pilgrim Fathers (Bowditch), and I see one instance, at least, in Hotten's "Emigrants:" "1670, Feb. 18. Buried Deliverance Addison."--Christ Church, Barbados. "Deliverance Hobbs and Deliverance Dane were both examined in the great trial for witchcraft at Salem, June 2, 1692."--Neal, "New England," pp. 533, 506. The last instance, probably, at home is-- "1757, Jan. 7. Buried Deliverance Branan."--Donnybrook, Dublin (_Notes and Queries_). This "Deliverance" must have been especially common. One more instance: in the will of Anne Allport, sen., of Cannock, Stafford, dated March 25, 1637, mention is made of "my son-in-law Deliverance Fennyhouse" (_vide_ _Notes and Queries_, Dec. 8, 1860, W. A. Leighton). Much-mercy is characteristic: "1598, May 22. Baptized Much-mercie Harmer, a child."--Warbleton. This is but one more proof of Heley's influence, for he had baptized one of his own sons "Much-mercy" in 1585. Perhaps a sense of undeserved mercies caused the following: