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The Twentieth General Meeting. 



is assessed at £7 — and so on, in all £132 for lands. The list ends 

 with ' John Robins for his Quar/ which is set down at nothing'. 

 This list may, therefore, be taken as a census of the proprietors of 

 the land and houses. Besides this a list of persons possessed of 

 money or goods is given ; they had to pay 24s. in the hundred on 

 the value. The list also contains twenty-one other names, all 

 assessed at very small sums, amounting altogether to £12. 2s. 3d. 

 The land, &c, assessment amounted to £446. The assessors were 

 Charles Vilett and Charles Hughes ; the collectors, Boxwell and 

 Garrard. In order to assess the duties on burials, &c, the assessors 

 seem to have^ written out the names of all the housekeepers, their 

 wives, children, apprentices, and other inmates, and put columns 

 opposite to their names for entries of births, &c. The families are 

 kept distinct. It is therefore a census and a genealogical register. 

 Thus it gives—Thomas Goddard, Esq., Mary, his wife, Richard, his 

 son, Ann, his daughter ; John Gilbert, gentleman, Susan, his wife, 

 Elizabeth, his daughter, Henry Pinckney, apprentice. After the 

 trades are mentioned others, John Hollo way, translator, (whatever 

 that means), William Webb, tobacco cutter, and so on. In some 

 cases, property is mentioned — Stephen Lawrence, £600 personal 

 estate; Charles Hughes, £50 per annum. The names of covenant 

 servants and of persons receiving weekly allowances are given at the 

 end. The census for Swindon parish shows the population in 1697 

 (176 years ago), to have been 808." 



On the conclusion of the paper, Mr. Cunnington said that he was 

 sure the meeting would present their cordial thanks to Mr. Mullings, 

 both for the paper and for these documents themselves : and when 

 he told them that that gentleman had promised him a further donation 

 for the funds of the Society, he felt still more certain that the vote 

 would be heartily received. 



With their permission he would now mention some recent dis- 

 coveries in the history of certain ancient Wiltshire families. He 

 had found the place of their residence, and of their death : but it 

 was very difficult to determine the date of their arrival in the county, 

 or of their leaving it. They were Hippopotamus major, and Cervus 

 tarandus, the great hippopotamus and the reindeer of Iceland. He 



