“Here lieth the body of Abstinence Pougher, Esq., who died Sept. 5, 1741, aged 62 years.”
In some cases we find the infant represented, not by a grace-name, but as in a state of grace. Every register contains one or two Godlies:
“1579, July 24. Baptized Godlye, d. of Richard Fauterell.”—Warbleton.
“1611, May 1. Baptized Godly, d. of Henry Gray, and Joane his wife. Joane Standmer and Godly Gotherd, sureties.”—South Bersted, Sussex.
“1619, Nov. Baptized Godly, d. of Thomas Edwardes, of Poplar.”—Stepney.
“1632, Oct. 30. Married John Wafforde to Godly Spicer.”—Cant. Cath.
Gracious is as objectionable as Godly. Gracious Owen was President of St. John’s College, Oxford, during the decade 1650-1660.
“Oct. 24, 1661. Examination of Gracious Franklin: Joshua Jones, minister at the Red Lion, Fleet Street, told him that he heard there were 3000 men about the city maintained by Presbyterian ministers.”—C. S. P.
Lively, we may presume, referred to spiritual manifestations. A curious combination of font name and patronymic is obtained in Lively Moody, D.D., of St. John’s College, Cambridge, 1682 (Wood’s “Fasti Oxonienses”). Exactly one hundred years later the name is met with again:
“1782, July 3. Lively Clarke of this town, sadler, aged 60.”—Berkeley, Gloucester.