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industrious, and live comfortably in good stone or brick cottages, 

 which are glazed, and have chambers above stairs : mud buildings 

 we have none. Besides the employment from husbandry, the 

 men work in hop gardens, of which we have many ; and fell and 

 bark timber. In the spring and summer the women weed the 

 corn ; and enjoy a second harvest in September by hop picking. 

 Formerly, in the dead months they availed themselves greatly 

 by spinning wool, for making of bai-ragons, a genteel corded stuff, 

 much in vogue at that time for summer wear ; and chiefly 

 manufactured at Alton, a neighbouring town, by some of the 

 people called Quakers : but from circumstances this trade is at 



Total of burials from 1720 to 1779, both inclusive ... 60 years . . . 640. 



Baptisms exceed burials by more than one third. 



Baptisms of Males exceed Females by one tenth, or one in ten. 



Burials of Females exceed Males by one in thirty. 



It appears that a child, born and bred in this parish, has an equal chance to live 



above forty years. 



Twins thirteen times, many of whom dying young have lessened the chance 



for life. 

 Chances for life in men and women appear to be equal. 



198 188 386 I 123 123 246 83 



During this period of twenty years the births of males exceeded those of 



females ... 10. 



The burials of each sex were equal. 



And the births exceeded the deaths . . . 140. 



