... In documents of those times, many a homely name appears in an imposing form.  "The matriculation book of the Edinburgh University, in the seventeenth century, is signed by a student whom mortals called Blyth, but who, aiming at something higher, writes his own name Hilarius; while another, christened Colin Caldwell, subscribes the oaths of admission as Colinus a fonte gelido."  The most desperate attempt of the kind we remember to have seen is one Andrew Borde made into Andreas Perforatus!... (Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, 1869)