"1660, June. Petition of Increased Collins, His Majesty's servant, for _restoration_ to the keepership of Mote's Bulwark, near Dover, appointed January, 1629, and dismissed in 1642, as not trustworthy, imprisoned and sequestered, and in 1645 tried for his life. "1660, Oct. Petition of Noah Bridges, and his son Japhet Bridges, for office of clerk to the House of Commons."--C. S. P. Thus it will be seen that, in the general rush for places of preferment at the Restoration, there were men and women bearing names of the most marked Puritanism, who did not hesitate to forward their appeals with the Williams and Richards of the world at large. They manifestly did not suppose their sobriquets would be any bar to preferment. One of them, too, had been body-man to Charles in his exile, and another had suffered in person and estate as a devoted adherent of royalty. We may hope and trust, therefore, that all this scoffing was of a good-humoured character. It was, doubtless, the prejudice against Puritan eccentricity that introduced civil titles as font names into England--a class specially condemned by Cartwright and his friends. At any rate, they are contemporary with the excesses of fanatic nomenclature, and are found just in the districts where the latter predominated. _Squire_ must have arisen before Elizabeth died: "1626, March 21. Petition of Squire Bence."--C. S. P. "1662, Oct. 30. Baptized Jane, d. of Squire Brockhall."--Hornby, York. "1722, July 28. Baptized Squire, son of John Pysing and Bennet, his wife."--Cant. Cath. _Duke_ was the christian name of Captain Wyvill, a fervent loyalist, and grandson of Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, Bart., of Constable Burton, Yorkshire: "1681, Feb. 12. Baptized Duke, son of Robert Fance, K{nt}."--Cant. Cath. _Squire_ passed over the Atlantic, and is frequently to be seen in the States; so that if men may not squire themselves at the end of their names in the great republic, they may at the beginning.