Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature

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OUR ENGLISH SURNAMES: their Sources and Significations.
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CURIOSITIES OF PURITAN NOMENCLATURE
BY CHARLES W. BARDSLEY AUTHOR OF “ENGLISH SURNAMES, THEIR SOURCES AND SIGNIFICATIONS”
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I will not be so ill-natured as to quote the names of all the writers who have denied the existence of Puritan eccentricities at the font. One, at least, ought to have known better, for he has edited more books of the Puritan epoch than any other man in England. The mistake of all is that, misled perhaps by Walter Scott and Macaulay, they have looked solely to the Commonwealth period. The custom was then in its decay.