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Mr. Thomas Langhorn, gentleman ; and same year, John Lowther, 
gentleman. 
On December roth, 1694, Mr. John Child made his last entry 
in the register of burials, and on the zoth in that of baptisms, and 
twenty days after his own burial is registered. Of Mr. Child’s 
immediate successor and the subsequent advent of Dr. Hugh 
Todd, I have already alluded to in my former paper, and will only 
add that in 1714, during Dr. Todd’s incumbency, separate register 
books were abandoned and the mixed form again adopted, which 
continued up to 1754 when a separate book for marriages was 
commenced as one of the results of the Marriages Act of 1753. 
Quaint ENTRIES. 
Uncommon, or oddly expressed entries are sometimes met with 
in the registers. Thus :— 
1662—Isabell Burn als (alias) Lucky Weel, a nickname perhaps 
from the sign of a public-house kept by her “ The Lucky 
Wiheel:” 
1665—One Gillbanks drowned at the Skirsgill Well. 
1714— Matthew Varty, killed by a sudden fall, buried. 
1717—Lancelot Hubb, an old piper, buried. 
1719—Henry Taylor, an old man aged ros years. (This was sixty 
years before ages were systematically registered.) 
1726—William, son of Anthony Otto, a German, baptized. 
1744—Mary Penrith, a foundling, baptized. 
1759—Noel Josette, a French officer on parole, buried. Same 
year, Captain Prevot, French prisoner, buried. (French 
Canadian prisoners of war.) 
1772—December 13. James Bell, a German, aged 113, buried. 
This very aged German, with a thoroughly British name, 
is certainly a curiosity. Can he be the same person 
referred to in a baptismal register in 1739—Mary, daughter 
of James Bell, a piper. If so, even at thirty-three years 
before his death, he must have been an ancient parent, 
1773—April. Jane Martin, poor, aged 108, 
