OF SELBORNE 13 



verge of the forest, contain upwards of six hundred and 

 seventy inhabitants. 1 We abound with poor ; many of 



1 A STATE of the Parish of SELBORNE, taken October 4, 1783. 



The number of tenements or families, 136. 

 The number of inhabitants in the street is 313 ) To ^} 6 J 6 ; near 



In the rest of the parish 363 f inhabitants to each 



* * J| tenement. 



In the time of the Rev. Gilbert White, vicar, who died in 1727-8, the 

 number of inhabitants was computed at about 500. 



Average of baptisms for 60 years. 

 From 1720 to 1729, both years inclusive < ^ a es , ^ \ 12,9 



Total of burials from 1720 to 1779, both inclusive . . 60 years . . 640. 



Baptisms exceed burials by more than one third. 



Baptisms of Males exceed Females by one tenth, or one in ten. 



Burials of Females exceed Males by one in thirty. 



