452 A DISSERTATION ON THE 
another. At present we only intend to attempt 
to trace down the Patronymic form through cer- 
tain changes it has undergone from time, and the 
introduction and use, after the establishment of 
Christianity, of different forms of names arising 
from the consequent alteration in the habits and 
customs of the Anglo-Saxon race. 
If we trace down the Anglo-Saxon names, as 
they occur from the earliest dawn of their history, 
we shall find a gradual change. Mixed with the 
Patronymic form was at first the infantile, either 
alone or with an epithet or cognomen. Of the 
infantile kind, given at birth, are the A‘thelwulfs, 
the Eadwulfs, the AZlfreds, and Eadwards. Of 
the other, are Walfsic, the Blake, Thurkels, the 
White. Then, more particularly when Christi- 
anity had modified manners by its milder influ- 
ence, we find the father’s name frequently con- 
nected with that of the son; as Zlmor ‘Ifrice’s 
suna, Godwine Wolfnothe’s suna, till at length 
epithets, cognomens, and nicknames gave way or 
were modified into surnames; and we meet with 
such names as A2thelwerde Stameran, A‘thelwerd 
the Stammerer, and Godwine Drefian, or the 
Driveller no longer. 
