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the projecting upper story." On this point however let everyone 

 use his own judgment, after due examination : for myself, though I 

 scarcely venture to offer any opinion, I incline to the earlier date, 

 to which I am led not only by many of the details given above, but 

 still more by the authority of those in whose judgment I am in- 

 clined to place confidence. It is however a question open to opinion, 

 and may well exercise the careful consideration of those who are 

 most conversant with such matters. But certain I am, that when 

 thus carefully examined, whether it be pronounced fifteenth, sixteenth, 

 or even seventeenth century work, all will unite in one voice of ad- 

 miration at the beauty of the building, and in no less hearty a 

 tribute of gratitude to the worthy owner, who is carrying out the 

 work of restoration in so reverent, so careful, so truly archiEological, 

 a spirit, and who has done his utmost to preserve in its integrity 

 so fine a specimen of the old timber houses of England. 



ON SOME 



Curiosities anb (Statistics af "Parisl Registers* 



By the Rev. W. C. Plendeeleath. 



J^OME years ago I undertook the task of indexing the registers 

 2^1 of the little Wiltshire village of which I am rector. In 

 the course of that work, which occupied my spare time for more 

 than two years, I came across a nnmber of facts, and was led into 

 some enquiries, which interested me greatly. It was not that the 

 Cherhill registers contained any historic names, or were interspersed 

 With any curious remarks, such, for example, as that at Chaddle- 

 worth, Bucks, where a friend told me he once read the following 

 P.S. to an entry of burial: — "This is the man who met one of 

 Cromwell's Ironsides in Hangmanstone Lane, and was never well 



