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stick, one notch for each sheep ; then we split the stick in two, and the farmer 

 kept one half and the shepherd the other till next year." 



In Charles Knight's 'Old England,' 1844, vol. i. are figures and notices of: 

 (1) Signs for docketed documents, p. 114, fig. 467, i-w; (2) a Clog Almanack, 

 p. 115, fig. 472 ; (3) an Exchequer Tally, p. 115, fig. 471 ; and (4) a Saxon Reeve- 

 pole, formerly used in the Isle of Portland by the Collector of the King's Rents, 

 p. 115, fig. 473. 



Page 190. Score. In the Game of Cricket it is usual for some players to record 

 a run as " scoring a notch." (T. K. Gay.) 



Page 190. Tally. Dr. Robert Brown, E.R.G.S., writes to me that 



" At Eiga in former times (if not still, for all I know to the contrary) the cargo sent down to a vessel was 

 cheeked by means of tallies. The Mate, who received the cargo, and the man who brought it down (or the 

 merchant's agent), had each a stick. As each load was brought down, the two sticks, which were exactly 

 the same, were placed together, and a notch made on them in a transverse direction. The result was that 

 it was impossible for either party to cheat in the number of loads of merchandise sent down ; for, if an 

 attempt was made to do so, then, instantly, when the sticks were placed together, the tell-tale notch, 

 which did not match the one in the other stick, settled the point." 



Page 190, line 14. Shakespeare also alludes to the notched stick used by the 

 " homely swain " to reckon time and times, in ' K. Henry VI.' Part 3, Act ii. 

 Scene 5 ; and in ' Taming of the Shrew,' Induction, Scene 2, "if she say I am not 

 fourteen pence on the score for sheer ale, score me up for the lyingest knave in 

 Christendom," illustrates the common use of " scoring." 



Page 190 (footnote). Esquimaux Aide-de-memoir e. The late Mr. Gay met with 

 further evidence that scoring or notching has been used for intercommunication, in 

 Sir E. Belcher's memoir on the Works of Art of the Esquimaux, ' Trans. Ethnolog. 

 Soc. London,' new series, vol. i. 1861. At page 135 it is remarked that 



" Dr. Rae has referred to their signs, counting on their fingers, &c., and considered that they have no 

 records. At Icy Cape I had occasion to think otherwise, and that the apparent counting on the fingers has 

 a deeper signification than mere numerals. And they added, in the instance to which I refer, the seeking 

 for a pair of notched sticks similar to a Baker's Tally. 



" Making use of the sticks and working with the fingers, apparently using each joint to denote some 

 signal, and the front and back as variations, possibly as past and future, they at length, by the intervention 

 of the seer (which I think has been noticed by Beechey), made me understand that something preceding my 

 visit was referred to ; and since then I have been induced to think that it related to some matte connected 

 with Sir John Franklin's boat-expedition in 1826-27, passed on from tribe to tribe by tradition." 



Page 191. The New-Zealand Aide-de -memoir e has its analogues amongst the 

 Miantsze or Aborigines of China, of whom Mr. William Lockhart writes, in the 

 ' Trans. Ethnolog. Soc. London,' new series, vol. i. 1861, p. 185 : 



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