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availed themselves greatly by spinning wool, for mak- 

 ing of barragons, a genteel corded stuff, much in vogue 



Males. Females. 



1810 to 1819 12-9 11-8 24'7 



1820 to 1829 15- 13'8 28-8 



Total of baptisms of males . . . 611 

 females . . . 582 

 Total of baptisms from 1780 to 1829, both inclusive, fifty years, 1193. 



Average of Burials for Fifty Years.^ 



Males. Females. 

 From 1780 to 1789, both years inclusive . 5'3 6- 11-3 



1790 to 1799 7-5 5'1 12-6 



1800 to 1809 5-4 5'3 10'7 



1810 to 1819 6-1 6- 12-1 



1820 to 1829 8-4 6-7 15'1 



Total of burials of males .... 327 

 females ... 291 

 Total of burials from 1780 to 1829, both inclusive, fifty years, 618. 



Without touching upon the many deductions that might be attempted to 

 be drawn from these data on the state of the population in an agricul- 

 tural and almost isolated parish, extending over upwards of a hundred 

 years, there is one observation which obtrudes itself on the attention. 

 In 110 years, at Selborne, the baptisms have exceeded the burials in the 

 proportion of 7 to 4, and the absolute excess has been 959. If, therefore, 

 the population were rightly assumed in the time of the elder Gilbert 

 White, the parish ought now to contain upwards of 1400 inhabitants. 

 This, however, is not the case. In 1831 the number of its inhabitants was 

 924. There must consequently have been considerable emigration from 

 it. 



The population is thus stated in the returns printed by order of the 

 House of Commons : 



Annual Value of 



Real Property as Population, 



assessed April, 1815. 



Selborne, Parish . .4324 I 1801. I 1811 4 I 1821. I 1831. 



I 762 I 770 | 893 | 924 



The abstract of the answers and returns made at the census in the 

 latter year states the area of the parish at 4410 acres: the number of 

 houses, inhabited, 128; uninhabited, 4 : the number of families, 163; of 

 which were chiefly employed in Agriculture, 91 ; in Trade, 36 ; others, 

 36 : the number of Males, 468 ; Females, 456 ; of Males, 20 years of 

 age, 193 : Occupiers of land, employing labourers, 22 ; not employing 

 labourers, 8 : Labourers employed in Agriculture, 82 ; in Manufacture, 

 0; in Trade or Handicraft, 44; others, 19; Capitalists or Professional, 

 2; other Males, 20 years of age, 16: Male Servants, 0; Female, 14. 

 E. T. B.] 



