A Puritan maiden, who was asked for her baptismal name, replied, “‘Through-much-tribulation-we-enter-the-kingdom-of-Heaven,’ but for short they call me ‘Tribby.’” * * * * * The following names will be found in _Lower’s English Sirnames_, and in the _Lansdowne Collection_. Most of them are taken from a jury-list of Sussex County, 1658. The favorite female baptismal names among the Puritans were Mercy, Faith, Fortune, Honor, Virtue; but there were among them those who preferred such high-flown names as Alethe, Prothesa, Euphrosyne, Kezia, Keturah, Malvina, Melinda, Sabrina, Alpina, Oriana. The-gift-of-God Stringer, Repentant Hazel, Zealous King, Be-thankful Playnard, Live-in-peace Hillary, Obediencia Cruttenden, Goodgift Noake, The-work-of-God Farmer, More-tryal Goodwin, Faithful Long, Joy-from-above Brown, Be-of-good-comfort Small, Godward Freeman, Thunder Goldsmith. Faint-not Hewett, Redeemed Compton, God-reward Smart, Earth Adams, Meek Brewer, Repentance Avis, Kill-sin Pimple, Be-faithful Joiner, More-fruit Flower, Grace-ful Harding, Seek-wisdom Wood, Fight-the-good-fight-of-faith White, Accepted Trevor, Make-peace Heaton, Stand-fast-on-high Stringer, Called Lower, Be-courteous Cole, Search-the-scriptures Moreton, Return Spelman, Fly-debate Roberts, Hope-for Bending, Weep-not Billing, Elected Mitchell, The-peace-of-God Knight SIMILES. Prayer is Faith’s pump, where’t works till the water come; If’t comes not free at first, Faith puts in some. Prayer is the sacred bellows; when these blow, How doth that live-coal from God’s altar glow! _Faithful Teate’s Ter. Tria._, 1658. Walking in the streets, I met a cart that came near the wall; so I stepped aside, to avoid it, into a place where I was secure enough. _Reflection_: Lord, sin is that great evil of which thou complainest that thou art pressed as a cart is pressed: how can it then but bruise me to powder?—_Caleb Trenchfield’s Chris. Chymestree._ EARLY PUNISHMENTS IN MASSACHUSETTS. From the early records of Massachusetts we learn that the following singular punishments were inflicted in that colony two hundred years ago:—