Two other examples may be furnished:—
“1553, Nov. 15. Peternoll, daughter of William Agar, baptized.”—St. Columb Major.
“1590, April. Pernell, d. of Antony Barton, of Poplar.”—Stepney, London.
The Restoration did not restore Parnel, and the name is gone.
Sibyl had a tremendous run in her day, and narrowly escaped a second epoch of favour in the second Charles’s reign. Tib and Sib were always placed side by side. Burton, speaking of “love melancholy,” says—
“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.”
The “Psalm of Mercie,” too, has it:
“‘So, so,’ quoth my sister Bab,
And ‘Kill ’um,’ quoth Margerie;
‘Spare none,’ cry’s old Tib; ‘No quarter,’ says Sib,
‘And, hey, for our monachie.’”
In “Cocke Lorelle’s Bote,” one of the personages introduced is—
“Sibby Sole, mylke wyfe of Islynton.”