------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Footnotes have been moved to follow the paragraphs in which they are referenced. The alphabetic portion of the Glossary (pp. xviii–cxliii), which serves as an Index, was printed in two columns, which cannot be duplicated in a ‘pageless’ medium. Nearly all entries reference the physical page in the main section of the volume where it is discussed. Footnotes have been collected at the end of each section. Tables that fell within a paragraph are moved to the nearest paragraph break. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN NAMES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN NAMES BY CHARLOTTE M. YONGE, AUTHOR OF “THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE,” “UNKNOWN TO HISTORY,” ETC. ETC. _NEW EDITION, REVISED._ =London= MACMILLAN AND CO. 1884 [_All rights reserved._] LONDON R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS, BREAD STREET HILL. PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION. I cannot put forth this attempt without a few words of apology for having undertaken it at all. The excuse is, chiefly, the attraction that the subject has had for me for at least twenty years, from the time when it was first taken up as matter of amusement. The difficulty of gaining information, and the inconsistencies of such as I did acquire, convinced me that the ground was almost untrodden; but the further I advanced on it, the more I perceived that it required a perfect acquaintance with language, philology, ethnology, hagiology, universal history, and provincial antiquities; and to me these were so many dark alleys, up which I only made brief excursions to knock my head against the wall of my own ignorance.