Jabez Allies (1787-1856) in Antiquities of Worcestershire (second edition, 1852) included in the book an enlargement of an earlier pamphlet on ‘The Ignis Fatuus or Will 0′ the Wisp and the Fairies‘, in which he linked many of the place-names of Worcestershire with the names of the fairies in the anonymous 17th-century pamphlet
the LiFE OF ROBiN GOODFELLOW and in Drayton’s Nimphidia.

One was a piece of popular journalism and the other a conspicuous example of the fashionable interest in the DiMinutive faiRies among the Jacobean poets, but both works are founded on a common folk tradition which
endured until well on into the 19th century.

From The Life of Robin Goodfellow Allies quotes:

Pinch and Patch, Gull and Grim,
Goe you together;
For you can change your shapes,
Like to the weather.
Sib and Tib, Licke and Lull,
You have trickes too;
Little Tom Thumb that pipes
Shall goe betwixt you.

And from Drayton’s Nimphidia he quotes the list of Queen mab’s Maids of Honour:

Hop, and Mop, and Dryp so clear,
Pip, and Trip, and Skip that were
To Mab, their sovereign, ever dear.
Her special maids of honour;
Fib, and Tib, and Pinch, and Pin,
Tick, and Quick, and Jil, and Jin,
Tit, and Nit, and Wap, and Win,
The train that wait upon her.

To match these, Allies has collected, in Worchestershire alone, Drip’s Hill, Grimsend, Lulsley, Patcham, Pinshill, Sibhay, Tibhay, Winstile, and many others to say nothing of those he has found scattered all over the country and collected from Anglo-Saxon place-names. It seems probable,’ he says, ‘that such places, or most of them, were so called after the corresponding names of some of the above-mentioned fairies.’ It is arguable that these places may have taken their names from the fairies, and if so, the Anglo-Saxon names would argue a considerable antiquity for these particular fairies; but most of the names of the minor fairies who appear in Nimphidia and The Life of Robin Goodfellow seem to have been rather arbitrarily imposed by the authors.

Pinch, Gull, Licke and LULL might well be named after their activities, but it is possible that the names came first and the explanation afterwards; it is certainly so with GRIM, who was of a most respectable antiquity.

The names of Drayton’s maids of honour suggest the same origin. ‘Hop, Mop, Dryp, Pip, Trip, Skip, Fib, Tib, Pinch, Pin, Tick, Quick, Jil, Jin, Tit, Nit, Wap and Win’ might well be named ex tempore as one watched them. ‘Wap and Win’ are perhaps illuminated by a cant phrase quoted in Dekker’s O Per Se O, ‘If she will not wap for a win, let her trine for a make’, translated by Dekker, ‘ If she will not O per Se O for a penny, let her hang for a halfpenny’ This suggests that hint of scurrility which lurks behind some of her rick’s fairy poetry.

Allies gives lengthier notes on Puck, jacky lantern, robin GOODFELLOW, DOBBY, HOB, ROBIN HOOD, the SEVEN WHISTLERS
and WILL o’ the wisp.

SOURCE:

An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and Other Supernatural Creatures written by Katharine Mary Briggs – Copyright © 1976 by Katharine Briggs