334 A TOPOGRAPHICAL 



Esq., very laudably supports a Sunday-school for the poor child- 

 ren of the parish. 



The Parish Register commences in January 1558; and the 

 average number of baptisms, &c. each year is nearly as follows for 

 the respective periods stated : 



1771 1807 11 1. 



In 1808 there were 16 0- 



In 1729 were 28 funerals; in 1778, 21 baptisms; and in 1756, 

 6 weddings ; which are the greatest number of each that have yet 

 taken place in any one year. The following is a statement of the 

 amount of the number of funerals that have occurred in the several 

 months of the years from 1701 to 1808, both inclusive, which shews 

 t he order of the months, as they have been most fatal to the inhabi- 

 tants of the parish of Maer : April, 87 ; May, 80 ; March, 72 ; 

 February, 71 ; July, 63; November, 58; January, 53; June, 49; 

 December, 44; August, 42; October 42; September, 39. 



Extracts from the Parish Register. Richard Wilson, died De- 

 cember 24, 1693, aged (ut ipse dixit) 138 ! 



Catherine Morgan, died February 6, 1639-40, aged 100. 



Mem. 1775. This year was very remarkable for the wetness of 

 the season, and the lateness of the harvest : corn was not all got in 

 until the middle of November. 



The living is a curacy, endowed with a small parsonage-house, 

 about two acres of glebe, and the great and small tithes of the 

 parish, excepting one or two estates, which are tithe-free. It is in 

 the patronage of Josiah Wedgwood, Esq. : the present incumbent 

 is the Rev. Robert Smith ; and the Rev. William Snape, is 

 curate. 



An annual rent of six shillings and eightpence, called Candlestick 

 money, is charged upon certain lands, &c. near the village of 

 Maer, in the said parish, and is paid to the overseers. 



The parish of Maer contained in 1811, 76 houses, 80 families; 

 221 males, 233 females : total of inhabitants, 454. 



" About half-a-mile to the north of the village of Maer, is a hill 



