Note 30 — Chapter I · PATRONYMIC SURNAMES.
Reading edition
A curious spelling of this is found in the entry, ‘Haunce, the Luter, ii.s—vi.d.’ (Privy Purse Exp. Princess Mary, p. 104.) ‘Hankin Booby’ was the common name for a clown. (Chappell’s English Songs, i. 73.)
‘Thus for her love and loss poor Hankin dies,
His amorous soul down flies.’
Musarum Deliciæ, 1655.