#'what'd you christen your son?'
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it's a bit hard to identify name trends as such in the past, but the first half of the 1500s definitely had a thomas surge, right? there were so many fucking thomases
#🗡️#though given the dates of birth#i suspect it was more of a late 1400s issue#'what'd you christen your son?'#'thomas! very charming name. my son was born on st thomas's feast day you see'#'what a coincidence! i did the same - was it st thomas aquinas?'#'no agnes it was st thomas becket. honestly you have no standards at all'#'i'm reporting you to king henry for that!'#'who?'#'you know - the new king henry vii'#'...we have a new king?'#'do you ever pay attention mary? he's sooo handsome - i'm well jealous of the queen'#'how d'you know he's handsome? and dare i ask which queen?'#'his coin effigies are just so striking you know? oh and it's elizabeth'#'god's bones this village has enough besses already - your margaret had better not use that name!'#<- imagined dialogue between two village women in 1485 who have just been churched
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