Terminations in _kin_ were slightly going down in popular estimation, when the Hebrew invasion made a clean sweep of them. They found shelter in Wales, however, and our directories preserve in their list of surnames their memorial for ever.[8] (_b_) _Cock._ The term "cock" implied _pertness_: especially the pertness of lusty and swaggering youth. To cock up the eye, or the hat, or the tail, a haycock in a field, a cock-robin in the wood, and a cock-horse in the nursery, all had the same relationship of meaning--brisk action, pert demonstrativeness. The barn-door cockerel was not more cockapert than the boy in the scullery that opened upon the yard where both strutted. Hence any lusty lad was "Cock," while such fuller titles as Jeff-cock, or Sim-cock, or Bat-cock gave him a preciser individuality. The story of "Cocke Lorelle" is a relic of this; while the prentice lad in "Gammer Gurton's Needle," acted at Christ College, Cambridge, in 1566, goes by the only name of "Cock." Tib the servant wench says to Hodge, after the needle is gone-- "My Gammer is so out of course, and frantic all at once, That Cock our boy, and I, poor wench, have felt it on our bones." By-and-by Gammer calls the lad to search: "Come hither, Cock: what, Cock, I say. _Cock._ How, Gammer? _Gammer._ Go, hie thee soon: and grope behind the old brass pan." Such terms as nescock, meacock, dawcock, pillicock, or lobcock may be compounds--unless they owe their origin to "cockeney," a spoiled, home-cherished lad. In "Wit without Money" Valentine says-- "For then you are meacocks, fools, and miserable." In "Appius and Virginia" (1563) Mausipula says (Act i. sc. 1)-- "My lady's great business belike is at end, When you, goodman dawcock, lust for to wend." In "King Lear" "Pillicock sat on pillicock-hill" seems an earlier rendering of the nursery rhyme-- "Pillicock, Pillicock sate on a hill, If he's not gone, he sits there still." In "Wily Beguiled" Will Cricket says to Churms-- "Why, since you were bumbasted that your lubberly legs would not carry your lobcock body." These words have their value in proving how familiarly the term _cock_ was employed in forming nicknames. That it should similarly be appended to baptismal names, especially the nick form of Sim, Will, or Jeff, can therefore present no difficulty. _Cock_ was almost as common as "_kin_" as a desinence. _Sim-cock_ was _Simcock_ to the end of his days, of course, if his individuality had come to be known by the name. "Hamme, son of Adecock, held 29 acres of land. "Mokock de la Lowe, for 10 acres. "Mokock dal Moreclough, for six acres. "Dik, son of Mocock, of Breercroft, for 20 acres."--"The De Lacy Inquisition," 1311.