12“Examinationof ffly fornication Bull of Hailsham Single Woman taken ye 21 of september 1646 who sayeth shee is with childe by Nathaniel Hugget of Hailsham, husbandman—that the said Hugget lay with her a littell before the harvest last in Goodman Woodman’s shop of Hailsham, & that he never lay with her but once & that no other person ever lay with her but ye sd Hugget.” Sussex Quarter Sessions Records, QR/E/73-91, ESUSRO, Lewes.
13 The popularity of hortatory names in Sussex was promoted by a minister named Thomas Hely; see Jeremy Goring, Church and Dissent in Warbleton, c. 1500-1900 (Warbleton and District History group, 1980), ESUSRO; for their vogue among Sussex Puritans see Brian Phillips, “Analyzing Christian Names,” SFH 6 (1985), 212-16; also Hylda Rawlings, “Note,” Danehill Parish Historical Society Magazine 2 (1982), 25; L. F. Salzmann, The History of the Parish of Hailsham (Lewes, 1901), 49-50; Charles Thomas-Stanford, Sussex in the Great Civil War, 24; for their unpopularity in East Anglia and Massachusetts see Smith, “Child-naming Practices,” 544; and Fischer, “Forenames and the Family,” 81.