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THE OLD CHURCHES OF WIRRAL
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Julie iWabe fjape
augusitc 3Reape Come,
^eptemiier Wimt ot binebage.
October tE^iUt t^e grounbe.
^uemiire ^ije litltm make ijeup c^ere.
Becembre ^Un moneti) feeepetfi men in
ijoujfe."
At the end of II Maccabees is a list of
proper names chiefly found in the Old
Testament, from which readers are exhorted
to choose names for their children.
This list is headed :—
" Whereas the wickedness ol time, and the blindness of
the former age hathe bene suche that all things altogether
bene abused and corrupted, so that the very right names
of diuerse of the holie men named in the scriptures bene
forgotten, and now seme strange vnto us, and the names
of infants that shulde euer have some godlie aduertise^
ments in them, and should be memorials and marks of the
children of God receiued into his householde, haue bene
hereby also charged and made the signes and badges of
idolatrie and heathenish impietie we have now set forthe
this table of ye names .... partly to call back the godlie
from that abuse, when they shal know the true names of
the godlie fathers and what they signifie, that their children
nowe named after them may have testimonies by their
verie names that they are within that faithful familie
that in all their doings had euer God before their eyes ..."
Then in the list are to be found such
extraordinary names as the following :—
Ahasueros, Artahshaste, Beraiah, Caseluhim,
Dositheus, Eleadah, Elichoenai,
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