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CURIOSITIES OF PURITAN NOMENCLATURE




BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

_Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 7s. 6d._

OUR ENGLISH SURNAMES: their Sources and Significations.

"Mr. Bardsley has faithfully consulted the original mediaeval documents and
works from which the origin and development of surnames can alone be
satisfactorily traced. He has furnished a valuable contribution to the
literature of surnames, and we hope to hear more of him in this
field."--_Times._

_CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY, W._




  CURIOSITIES OF
  PURITAN NOMENCLATURE


  BY CHARLES W. BARDSLEY

  AUTHOR OF "ENGLISH SURNAMES, THEIR SOURCES AND SIGNIFICATIONS"


                              "O my lord,
    The times and titles now are alter'd strangely"
                                        KING HENRY VIII.


  London
  CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY
  1880

  [_The right of translation is reserved_]




_Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, London and Beccles._




DEDICATED TO HIS FELLOW MEMBERS OF THE HARLEIAN SOCIETY.




PREFACE.


I will not be so ill-natured as to quote the names of all the writers who
have denied the existence of Puritan eccentricities at the font. One, at
least, ought to have known better, for he has edited more books of the
Puritan epoch than any other man in England. The mistake of all is that,
misled perhaps by Walter Scott and Macaulay