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.