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In January, 1888, a Lecture to the Young Men's Society 

 was given by Mr. George Markham Tweddell, of Stokesley, 

 entitled "A glance at the History of Ingleby." The parochial 

 history was reviewed from the earliest times to the latest, and 

 some notice given of the families of Baliol, Eure, Meinill, D'Arcy, 

 and Foulis, all of which have been connected with the parish. 

 Mention was also made of the interest which the Abbeys of 

 Whitby and Hexham and the Knights Templar of Westerdale 

 once had in the parish. An extract given from the " Black 

 Book" of Hexham was peculiarly interesting, as several of the 

 old place-names of the parish occurred in it. 



June, 1890. Some curious Christian names. A review of 

 " The Begister Booke of Inglebye juxta Greenhow," which 

 recently appeared in the Athenmum calls attention to some interest- 

 ing matters relating to the parish. Some notice of one or two of 



these will perhaps not be unacceptable. 



"From 1653 to 1659, Births, not Baptisms are registered. In 

 those years, England was a Commonwealth, and the opinions of 

 our lawgivers, combined with the legal advantages of such a 

 course, caused the passing of a statute, entitled — 'How 

 Marriages shall be solemnized and registered, and also a Register 

 of Births and Burials " Daring these seven years eighty-eight 

 births are recorded. This was the precise time, if the novelist's 

 view of history were correct, when we should find the largest 

 crop of those strange theological names which go by the 

 nickname —Puritan. It is, therefore not amiss to remark that 

 there is not one among them which can fairly bear that 

 character ; Dinah, Esther, and Josias are the only ones which 

 can, without hesitation, be attributed to the influence of the Old 

 Testament. An examination of the remarkably good index with 

 which the voluni9 is furnished, leads to a like conclusion. There 

 are, of course, a few names strange to our ears, the source of 

 which is certainly not Holy Scripture, such as Bethalina, 1797 ; 

 Heroina, 1681 ; Anastache, 1713 ; Pontia, 1664 ; Munday, 1544 ; 

 and Merrill, or Merroll, which seems to have been a by no means 

 uncommon name " Bethalina occurs but once, and about the 

 name Bethalina Beagerie, there is a quaint euphony, which may 

 be parallelled by another name in the Begister, viz.: — "An Man." 

 One would rather expect to find that the females bearing such 

 names were village characters. The form Bethalina is extremely 

 rare, but we take it to be one of the very numerous names for 

 which we are debtors to the name of Aaron's wife Elisheba, 

 which signifies, " God hath sworn." Other forms are Elizabeth, 

 Eliza, Elspeth, Bessie, Betsy, Betty, Libby, Liza. Heroina, a 



