HISTORY OF HARTING. 



219 



Christened Children. . . 22 

 Buried Persons .... 30 

 Married Couples .... 6 



Mr. Thos. Carill * Vicar." 



"From the 25th March, 1613, to 25th March, 1614, 

 were 



Christened Children ... 20 

 Buried Persons .... 31 

 Married Couples .... 6 " 



The burials in these years are nearly 75 per cent more 

 than those of the present time ; for the last ten years 

 the annual average has been 18, or 14 per 1000. There 

 are several entries in the old Registers which show a 

 devouring mortality, many being buried together from 

 one house. The small pox was the great destroyer. 

 Still, judging by the number of deaths and the un- 

 usual bulk of the Registers, it must be allowed that 

 for nearly 300 years it is probable that Harting has 

 contained over 500 souls. Some even go so far as to 

 calculate, from the antiquity of the majority of the 

 houses that ten thousand children have been baptized 

 in the venerable font of Harting Church. 



The following are the results of the Census from the 

 first: 



HARTING CONTAINED 



* The head of the family wrote his name " Caryll," as in a deed 

 in my possession of 1627. 



