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says, “ Not a solitary marriage is registered all the summer.” My 
investigation is somewhat different, I find that during the first four 
months of the visitation there were 17 marriages, equal to the 
average number for a year, and with the exception of the two 
months of March and May, there were some every month ; and 
that during the fifteen months of the pestilence and the three 
months succeeding there were 55 marriages, being at the rate of 36 
per annum, as against the normal average of 16. The result, no 
doubt, of the bereaved of both sexes hastening to console each 
other at the altar. 
The three years following the plague show a great increase in 
the number of marriages and baptisms, while the burials only 
average 28 fora year. The latter may perhaps be accounted for 
in two ways, the survival of the strongest and the diminished 
population, resulting from the abstraction of upwards of 600 
inhabitants, in a little over a year, from a probable population of 
2,000. 
ScoTTISH MARAUDERS. 
Another kind of plague, from which Penrith had long suffered, 
was the incursions of Scottish marauders, who infested Cumberland 
and Westmorland, thieving and killing with impunity; and no 
sooner had the plague disappeared than the Scottish land pirates 
made their appearance in greater force than ever. William Walleis’s 
register gives a pitiable account of their depredations in the years 
1600 and 1601, which may be seen in Dixon’s Charities, pub- 
lished 1820. 
The last entry William Walleis makes in his book of registers 1s 
to the effect that after having been vicar of Penrith for twenty-six 
years, he is vacating the living for Thursby, near Carlisle. Let us 
hope that in the twenty-two years he is known to have spent at 
that place, he had better fortune in his domestic relations, and 
enjoyed such happiness as compensated him for the heavy domestic 
and parochial troubles he had gone through at Penrith with the 
courage and endurance of a hero. William Walleis was succeeded 
by Mr. John Hastie, 
