Scarcely any name for girls was more common than this for a time; up to the Commonwealth period it contrived to exist. Take St. Peter, Cornhill, alone:
“1593, Jan. 13. Christened Apeline, d. of John Moris, clothworker.
“1609, Mch. 11. Christened Apoline, d. of Willm. Burton, marchant.
“1617, June 29. Buried Appelyna, d. of Thomas Church.”
Names from the great Church festivals fared as badly as those from the hagiology. The high day of the ecclesiastical calendar is Easter. We have more relics of this festival than any other. Pasche Oland or Pascoe Kerne figure in the Chancery suits of Elizabeth. Long before this the Hundred Rolls had given us a Huge fil. Pasche, and a contemporary record contained an Antony Pascheson. The different forms lingered till the Commonwealth:
“1553, Mch. 23. Baptized Pascall, son of John Davye.”—St. Dionis Backchurch.
“1651, Mch. 18. Married Thomas Strato and Paskey Prideaux.”—St. Peter’s, Cornhill.
“1747, May 4. Baptized Rebekah, d. of Pasko and Sarah Crocker.”—St. Dionis Backchurch.
“1582, June 14. Baptized Pascow, son-in-law of Pascowe John.”—St. Columb Major.
Pascha Turner, widow, was sister of Henry Parr, Bishop of Worcester.