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NOTABILIA OF OLD PENRITH.—Part II. 
By GEORGE WATSON. 
(Read at Penrith. ) 
AFTER reading my former paper on “Notabilia of the Old Town 
of Penrith” (Zransactions, No. XIV., 1888-9), it occurred to me 
that the few notes I then made of citizen life in the old town— 
mainly derived from the old churchwardens’ book—might be 
advantageously extended by research in the Parish Registers ; and 
having made the attempt, the present paper was read at Penrith 
last Session. 
In the interim, however, between reading this paper and revising 
it for publication in the Zvansactions, further investigation has 
thrown new light upon some of the subjects, and in such cases I 
have not hesitated to amend the text accordingly. 
Each successive vicar appears to have kept the registers himself, 
er to have been responsible for them; I will therefore notice them - 
under the respective vicars’ names. 
Mr. WiLu1aM WALLEIS. 
The first vicar the register makes us acquainted with is Mr. 
William Walleis, who held the living from 1575 to 1601, i.e., from 
the 17th to the 43rd year of Queen Elizabeth. 
The registers really commence in 1556, in the reign of Queen 
‘ Mary, of sanguinary memory, William Walleis having with com- 
mendable assiduity preserved all entries from that date, probably 
on paper, fast becoming illegible, which, with his own entries, he 
