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HISTORY
OF
CHRISTIAN NAMES
PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.
I cannot put forth this attempt without a few words ofapology for having undertaken it at all. The excuse is,chiefly, the attraction that the subject has had for me for atleast twenty years, from the time when it was first taken up asmatter of amusement. The difficulty of gaining information,and the inconsistencies of such as I did acquire, convinced methat the ground was almost untrodden; but the further Iadvanced on it, the more I perceived that it required a perfectacquaintance with language, philology, ethnology, hagiology,universal history, and provincial antiquities; and to me thesewere so many dark alleys, up which I only made briefexcursions to knock my head against the wall of my ownignorance.
But the interest of the subject carrie