CONTENTS.
| [PROLOGUE.] | ||
| THE PET-NAME EPOCH IN ENGLAND. | ||
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| I. | The Paucity of Names after the Conquest | [1] |
| II. | Pet Forms | [9] |
| (a.) Kin | [9] | |
| (b.) Cock | [13] | |
| (c.) On or In | [17] | |
| (d.) Ot or Et | [21] | |
| (e.) Double Terminatives. | [30] | |
| III. | Scripture Names already in use at the Reformation | [34] |
| (a.) Mystery Names | [34] | |
| (b.) Crusade Names | [35] | |
| (c.) The Saints’ Calendar | [36] | |
| (d.) Festival Names | [36] | |
| [CHAPTER I.] | ||
| THE HEBREW INVASION. | ||
| I. | The March of the Army | [38] |
| II. | Popularity of the Old Testament | [59] |
| III. | Objectionable Scripture Names | [70] |
| IV. | Losses | [76] |
| (a.) The Destruction of Pet Forms | [76] | |
| (b.) The Decrease of Nick Forms | [82] | |
| (c.) The Decay of Saint and Festival Names | [92] | |
| (d.) The Last of some Old Favourites | [99] | |
| V. | The General Confusion | [109] |
| [CHAPTER II.] | ||
| PURITAN ECCENTRICITIES. | ||
| I. | Introductory | [117] |
| II. | Originated by the Presbyterian Clergy | [121] |
| III. | Curious Names not Puritan | [128] |
| IV. | Instances | [134] |
| (a.) Latin Names | [134] | |
| (b.) Grace Names | [138] | |
| (c.) Exhortatory Names | [155] | |
| (d.) Accidents of Birth | [166] | |
| (e.) General | [176] | |
| V. | A Scoffing World | [179] |
| (a.) The Playwrights | [182] | |
| (b.) The Sussex Jury | [191] | |
| (c.) Royalists with Puritan Names | [194] | |
| VI. | Bunyan’s Debt to the Puritans | [198] |
| VII. | The Influence of Puritanism on American Nomenclature | [201] |
| [EPILOGUE.] | ||
| DOUBLE CHRISTIAN NAMES: THEIR RISE AND PROGRESS. | ||
| I. | Royal Double Names | [213] |
| II. | Conjoined Names | [222] |
| III. | Hyphened Names | [224] |
| IV. | The Decay of Single Patronymics in Baptism | [228] |
| V. | The Influence of Foundling Names upon Double Baptismal Names | [233] |
| Index | [239] | |
CURIOSITIES OF PURITAN NOMENCLATURE.
PROLOGUE.
THE PET-NAME EPOCH IN ENGLAND.
“One grows too fat, another too lean: modest Matilda, pretty pleasing Peg, sweet-singing Susan, mincing merry Moll, dainty dancing Doll, neat Nancy, jolly Joan, nimble Nell, kissing Kate, bouncing Bess with black eyes, fair Phillis with fine white hands, fiddling Frank, tall Tib, slender Sib, will quickly lose their grace, grow fulsome, stale, sad, heavy, dull, sour, and all at last out of fashion.”—Anatomy of Melancholy.
“Be the jacks fair within, the jills fair without, the carpets laid, and everything in order?”—The Taming of the Shrew.