Doubtless she was related to William Greenhill, born 1581, the great Puritan commentator on Ezekiel. This cannot be the earliest instance of the name, for one Hate-evill Nutter was a settler in New England twenty years before her baptism (Bowditch). I suspect its origin can be traced to the following:—
“1580, June 25. Baptized Hatill (Hate-ill), sonne of Willm. Wood.
“1608, Nov. 17. Baptized Hatill, sonne to Antony Robinson.”—Middleton-Cheney.
As Middleton-Cheney is a mere outlying parish from Banbury, I think we may see whence Hate-evil Greenhill’s name was derived.
Returning once more to Warbleton, Lament is so common there, as in other places, that it would be absurd to suppose the mother had died in childbirth in every instance. A glance at the register of deaths disproves the idea. The fact is Lament was used, like Repent, as a serious call to godly sorrow for sin:
“1594, July 22. Baptized Lament, d. of Antony Foxe.
“1598, May 14. Baptized Lament, d. of John Fauterell.
“1600, Mch 29. Baptized Lament, d. of Anne Willard.”
But we must not linger too much at Warbleton.
Live-well commanded much attention. Neither sex could claim the monopoly of it, as my examples prove. At the beginning of Charles II.’s reign, a warrant was abroad for the capture of one Live-well Chapman, a seditious printer. In such a charge it is possible he fulfilled the pious injunction of his god-parent: