Avice shared the same fate:
“Avis Kingston and Amary Clerke, widow, applied for arrears of pay due to their husbands, May 13, 1656.”—C. S. P.
“1590-1, Jan. Christened Avis, d. of Philip Cliff.”—Stepney.
“1600, Feb. 6. Baptized Avice, daughter of Thomas Bennett.”—St. Columb Major.
“1623, August 5. Christened Thomas, the sonne of James Jennets, and Avice his wife.”—St. Peter, Cornhill.
Thomasine requires a brief notice. Coming into use as a fancy name about 1450, it seems to have met with no opposition, and for a century and a half was a decided success. It became familiar to every district in England, north or south, and is found in the registers of out-of-the-way villages in Derbyshire, as plentifully as in those of the metropolitan churches:
“1538, Nov. 30. Married Edward Bashe and Thomeson Agar.”—St. Dionis Backchurch.
“1582, Nov. 1. Baptized Tamson, daughter of Richard Hodge.”—St. Columb Major.
“1622, Jan. 19. Christened Thomas, the sonne of Henery Thomson, haberdasher, and of Thomazine his wife.”—St. Peter, Cornhill.
“1620, Jan. 21. Baptized Johanna, fil. Tamsin Smith, adulterina.”—Minster.