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2. Have they been regularly kept? If not, with what 



intervals ? 



3. Have the earlier entries been copies into the Eegisters, 



apparently in large numbers at the same time ; or 

 singly, contemporaneously with the events recorded ? 



4. Make selections, in illustration of families, customs, 

 VII Hous ^^^^^' ^''P''''^*'^'''''^' «^' liistorical events. 



1. Number inhabited. 



2. Do. uninhabited. 



3. Any houses, large or small, destroyed within memory? 

 ' •^°- ^0- built within memory P 



5. Inhabited house duty, and number of houses charo-e- 



able with it. 



6. Numberof tenements comingunder the small tenements 



ratmg act, i.e. under £Q annual value, with the 

 whole rateable value of this property. 



7. Cottages or lodgings of the labouring population : 



' Wo!r ^■^'"'' °- ^•^^^'''iation. d. General 

 VIII. Population: 



1. Number at different periods, as recorded in the census, 



or in any earlier sources of information. 



2. Number of families at different periods. 



3. Increase or decrease of population at different periods, 



with the probable causes. 



4. Character of population, fixed or variable. 



5. Give any names occurring in the earlier registers, and 



stdl existing in the parish. 



6. Proportion of marriages under age to those of full a-e 



distinguishing sexes, within the last ten years, or "in 

 any earlier jjeriods. 



7. Proportion of legitimate to illegitimate births, in 



periods of ten years. 



8. Have any remarkable persons, whether rich or poor 



been born m the parish or connected with it? If so' 

 give sketches of their lives and characters 



