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whicli time it comes in againe, and goes no more out till Eogation 

 Sunday, from whence it is forbidden againe untill Trinity Sunday, 

 and from thence it is forbidden till Advent Sunday, but then it 

 is out and comes not in againe untill St. Hilary, whicb is on the 

 13th day of January next after." 



The Eev. J. N. Muneoed communicated a list of briefs issued 

 to the parish of St. Allen, which was copied from a fly-leaf of an 

 old register of that parish, and from which list the following is 

 compiled : — These briefs were collected between the years 1710 

 and 1715, and some of the entries are exceedingly quaint. In 

 1713 there was colected on a brief for "ye Turkish captive, son 

 of Mary Lake, of ye parish of St. Kew, 2s. 7d.," and the sum 

 raised for this Cornishman is in strong contrast with that sub- 

 scribed for William Bowyer, of London, for a loss by fire 

 amounting to £5146, which only amounted to 2d., and even he 

 might consider himself a fortunate man, for " Cornelius Paulyn, 

 Andrew Wilkin, William Dufiield, Thomas Eichard Hole, Greorge 

 Harpur, and others in ye town of Teffersham," had to divide 

 between them the same sum. Amongst other noteworthy entries 

 are the following : — 



"Brief for Charles Empsom, in the parish of Howdon, in ye 

 East Eiding, in the county of York, August 3rd, 171 1, 00 06 OOi." 

 There must have been something singular in this case to have 

 called forth such a large collection, which is only exceeded by 

 the " Brief for Little Brickhill, in the county of Bucks," which 

 realised the handsome sum of 00 07 00, which two large collec- 

 tions evidently for the time exhausted the liberality of the 

 parish, as the next brief for Whitechurch only produced the sum 

 of 00 00 06. We further find that the " collegiate church of 

 Southwell, in ye county of Nottingham," was damaged by light- 

 ning, in the year 1713, and St. Allen paid Is. 7fd. towards its 

 reparation. In the same year the church of Burton-upon-Trent, 

 in the county of Stafford, was not so fortunate, as there was 

 collected for it on Aug. ye 2nd. only 2^d. 



Two other entries in the year 1713 deserve particular notice ; 

 they are as follows : — "Brief for St. Margaret, at Cliff Church, 

 in ye county of Kent, shattered by storm, 4d." "Brief for 

 Quatford Church, in ye county of Salop, demolished by storm 

 and earth Qk. 4d." The brief for Leighton Church, in Salop, shows 



