“1587, Oct. 22. Baptized Repentance, dather of George Aysherst.”—Warbleton.
“1588, June 30. Baptized Repentance Water.”—Cranbrook.
“1597, Aug. 4. Baptized Repentance, daughter of Robert Benham, of Lymhouse.”—Stepney.
“1612, March 26. Baptized Repentance Wrathe.”—Elham, Kent.
“1688, Dec. 23. Bapt. Repentance, son of Thomas and Mercy Tompson.”—St. James, Piccadilly.
In the “Sussex Archæological Collections” (xvii. 148) is found recorded the case of Repentance Hastings, deputy portreeve of Seaford, who in 1643 was convicted of hiding some wreckage:
“Repentance Hastings, 1 load, 1 cask, 2 pieces of royals.”
Evidently his repentance began too early in life to be lasting; but infant piety could not be expected to resist the hardening influence of such a name as this.[45]
Humiliation was a big word, and that alone must have been in its favour:
“1629, Jan. 24. Married Humiliation Hinde and Elizabeth Phillips by banes.”—St. Peter, Cornhill.