A daughter “Repentance” must be added:
“1583, Dec. 8. Married William Arnolde and Repentance Pownoll.”
Take another instance, a little later, from the baptisms of St. Peter’s, Cornhill:
“1589, Nov. 2. Bezaleell, sonne of Michaell Nichollson, cordwayner.
“1599, Sep. 23. Aholiab, sonne of Michaell Nicholson, cordwainer.
“1595, May 18. Sara, daughter of Michaell Nichollson, cobler.
“1599, Nov. 1. Buried Rebecca, daughter of Michaell Nicholson, cordwainer, 13 yeares.”
Rebecca, therefore, would be baptized in 1586. Sara and Aholiab died of the plague in 1603. Both old Robert Pownoll and the cobler must have been Puritans of a pronounced type.
The Presbyterian clergy were careful to set an example of right name-giving:
“1613, July 28. Baptized Jaell, daughter of Roger Mainwaring, preacher.”—St. Helen, Bishopsgate.