Note 34 — Chapter I · PATRONYMIC SURNAMES.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a popular sobriquet for Jane or Joan was ‘Jugg.’ In Espinasses’ ‘Lancashire Worthies,’ Joan, the daughter of the celebrated Dr. Byrom, is familiarly styled ‘Jugg.’ A song of James I.’s reign says—

‘Joan, Siss, and Nell, shall all be ladified,

Instead of hay carts, in coaches shall ride.’

This is Mr. Chappell’s version. (English Songs, i. 327.) In Hunter’s ‘Hallamshire,’ it runs—

‘Jugg, Cis, and Nell, shall all be ladified.’

A ballad of Queen Anne’s reign represents John, the swain, as singing—

‘My heart and all’s at thy command,

And tho’ I’ve never a foot of land,

Yet six fat ewes and one milch cow,

I think, my Jug, is wealth enow.’

(Pills to Purge Melancholy, i. 293.)