Take Renatus, for instance:
“1616, Sep. 29. Baptized Renatus, son of Renatus Byllett, gent.”—St. Columb Major.
“1637-8, Jan. 12. Order of Council to Renatus Edwards, girdler, to shut up his shop in Lombard Street, because he is not a goldsmith.
“1690, April 10. Petition of Renatus Palmer, who prays to be appointed surveyor in the port of Dartmouth.”—C. S. P.
“1659, Nov. 11. Baptized Renovata, the daughter of John Durance.”—Cant. Cath.
It was Renatus Harris who built the organ in All-Hallows, Barking, in 1675 (“Hist. All-Hallows, Barking,” Maskell). Renatus and Rediviva occur in St. Matthew, Friday Street, circa 1590. Rediviva lingered into the eighteenth century:
“1735, ——. Buried Rediviva Mathews.”—Banbury.
Desiderata and Desiderius were being used at the close of Elizabeth’s reign, and survived the restoration of Charles II.:
“1671, May 26. Baptized Desiderius Dionys, a poor child found in Lyme Street.”—St. Dionis Backchurch.
Donatus and Deodatus, also, were Latin names on English soil before the seventeenth century came in: