Notes and Queries, Number 31, June 1, 1850

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 31, June 1, 1850

OUR SECOND VOLUME

NOTES

PARISH REGISTERS.—STATISTICS

THE HUDIBRASTIC VERSE

CUSTOM OF PRESENTING GLOVES

FOLK LORE

NOTES ON JEREMY TAYLOR'S LIFE OF CHRIST

NOTES ON JEREMY TAYLOR'S SERMONS

NOTE ON TAYLOR'S HOLY DYING

UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM

ON AUTHORS AND BOOKS, NO. 7

Queries

PUNISHMENT OF DEATH BY BURNING

CORNELIS DREBBEL

VERSES ATTRIBUTED TO CHARLES YORKE

CULTIVATION OF GEOMETRY IN LANCASHIRE

ASINORUM SEPULTURA

Minor Queries

Replies

HOWKEY OR HORKEY

CHARLES MARTEL

"FEAST" AND "FAST."

Replies to Minor Queries

MISCELLANEOUS

NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS

NEW WORKS IN GENERAL LITERATURE

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Among the good services rendered to the public by yourself and your correspondents, few, I think will be found more important than that of having drawn their attention to Mr. Wyatt Edgell's valuable suggestions on the transcription of Parochial Registers. The supposed impracticability of his plan has perhaps hitherto deterred those most competent to the work from giving it the consideration which it deserves. I believe the scheme to be perfectly practicable; and, as a first move in the work, I send you the result of my own dealings with the registers of my parish.

It is many years since I felt the desideratum which Mr. Edgell has brought before the public; and, by way of testing the practicability of transcribing, and printing the parochial registers of the entire kingdom in a form convenient for reference, I made an alphabetical transcript of my own, which is now complete. The modus operandi which I adopted was this:—1. I first transcribed, on separate slips of paper, each baptismal entry, with its date, and a reference to the page of the register, tying up the slips in the order in which the names were entered in the register; noting, as I proceeded, on another paper, the number of males and females in each year.

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We here see that the senarius is designated as a well-known verse, so that it must have been in the mouths of the people long before it was applied to this piece of gossip. I have hitherto not been able to trace it to an earlier writer.

The Apophthegmata of Erasmus were first published, I believe, in 1531, in six books. I have an edition printed by Frobenius, at Basle, in 1538, in which two more books are added; and, in an epistle prefixed to the seventh book, Erasmus says,—

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