This at once explains the origin of our more diminutive ‘Pauletts,’ ‘Pouletts,’ ‘Powletts,’ and ‘Pollitts.’[93] ‘Barnabas’ has left his impress upon our ‘Barnabys,’ and when not local, ‘Barnbys.’ Miss Yonge mentions an epitaph in Durham, dated 1633, commemorative of one of the proctors of the chapter— Under this thorne tree Lies honest Barnabee. A century later we find it in one of D’Orsey’s ballads— Davy the drowsy, and Barnaby bowzy, At breakfast will flout and will jeer, boys; Sluggards shall chatter, with small beer and water, Whilst you shall tope off the March beer, boys.—Vol. i. 311. This name is now entirely out of fashion. With five Alexanders in the New Testament it did not need the celebrity of the great commander nor that of more fabulous heroes to make his name common. In Scotland it obtained great favour, both in palace and cottage. The softer form was always used. Chaucer says— Alisaundre’s storie is commune; and Langland, among other foreign places of interest, speaks of Armonye and Alisaundre. This was no doubt the popular pronunciation of the time, except that it was usually abbreviated into ‘Sander,’ or ‘Saunder.’ Thus, in ‘Cocke Lorells Bote,’ it is said— Here is Saunder Sadeler, of Frog-street Corner, With Jelyan Joly at sign of the Bokeler. Hence it is we find such entries as ‘Thomas fil. Saundre,’ ‘John Alisaundre,’ ‘Edward Saundercock,’ or ‘Sandres Ewart,’ and hence again such surnames as ‘Sandercock,’ ‘Sanderson,’ ‘Saunderson,’ ‘Sanders,’ and ‘Saunders.’ ‘Timothy,’ saving in ‘Timms,’ ‘Timbs,’ ‘Timson,’ and ‘Timcock,’ seems to have been overlooked, and yet Glutton in ‘Piers Plowman’ is followed into the tavern by Wat the warner, and his wife both, Tymme the tinker, and twain of his ’prentices. But, however unfortunate Paul’s spiritual son may have been, the same cannot be said of Clement, his fellow-labourer. Raised to high distinction as the title of one of the greatest of the early fathers, a popular name among the Popes (for no less than fourteen were found to bear the sobriquet), Clement could not fail to meet with honour. Its usual forms were ‘Clement,’ ‘Clemence,’ and ‘Clemency.’ Diminutives were found also in ‘Clem’ and ‘Clim.’ Of the noted North English archer it is said, in one of the Robin Hood ballads— And Clim of the Clough hath plenty enough, If he but a penny can spare; and in the old song of the ‘Green-gown’ a rhyme is easily secured by the conjunction of such names as— Clem, Joan, and Isabel, Sue, Alice, and bonny Nell.