By the Rev. W. C. Plenderleath. 831 



it. It will not bee amiss when you find it daakish, to wipe over the 

 leaves with a dry wollen cloath. This place is very much subject to 

 dankishnessj therefore I say looke to it," 



At Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire, is the following table of 

 contents : — 



" Hio puer aetatem, hie vir sponsalia noscat : 

 Hio decessorum funera quisque sciat." 



This is rather truistic. A better preface runs as follows [I find 

 it jotted down in my note-book, but have accidentally omitted to 

 mark where I got it] : — 



"Janua baptismus : medio stat tseda jugalis. 

 Utroque ex felii, mors pia si sequitur," 



I see given in Notes and Queries (I., vii., 257) as existing at 

 *<- Ruyton, in Shropshire, what sounds very much like a translation of 

 the above : — 



"No flattery here, where to be bom and die 

 Of rich and poor is all the history. 

 Enough if virtue filled the space between 

 Proved by the ends of being to have been." 



At Norton, in the county of Durham, there occurs the following 

 preface to the register of marriages, according toSirCuthbert Sharpe, 

 from whose Chronicon Mirabile I quote it : " Marriage comes in 

 on the 13th of Januaiy, and at Septuagesima Sunday it is out again 

 until Low Sunday, at which time it comes in again, and goes not 

 out till Rogation Sunday : thence it is unforbidden until Trinity 

 Sunday, from thence it is forbidden until Advent Sunday and comes 

 not in again till the 13th of January." This note bears date 1745. 



At Fittleton in this county : " Wee are borne crying, wee live 

 laughing, wee dye sighing." This inscription is signed by the same 

 gentleman to whom I have already referred — " Ste. Jay," and ap- 

 pears to have been written about 1650. 



Of colophons of any sort or description I have met with not a 

 single instance. 



And now, leaving the wide pastures in which, note-book in band^ 



