By the Rev. A. C. Smith. 



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Ludlow Bruges) lias promised, when opportunity offers, to make a 

 oareful search, and use every effort to discover the missing MS. 



By the kindness of Mr. John Watson Taylor I have seen the 

 probate of the will of John Legg, dated April 10th, 1786. It is 

 exceedingly short, and indeed is contained in some half-dozen lines. 

 But the postscript, or codicil, which is three times as long as the will, 

 is valuable, in that while it makes mention of the three hooks which 

 he wrote (viz., the two hooks on natural history and that on religion) 

 it altogether omits any mention of the " History of British Birds," 

 of which he had elsewhere written in such high terms. And this 

 silence corroborates, we fear, the tradition in the family, that for 

 some unknown reason, its author subsequently became dissatisfied 

 with that work, so that it is probable it was never printed, though 

 it ma} T still perchance exist in MS. 



It only remains for me to thank the many kind friends who have 

 interested themselves in this enquiry and supplied me with many 

 scraps of information ; and more especially am I indebted to the 

 active cooperation of the clever young lady at Clyffe Hall, in the 

 parish of Market Lavington, who has gathered for me all the details 

 to be gained in that locality. 



Old Park, 



August nth, 1894. 



trials m ffloolkiL 



By the Rev. Canon E. P. Eddkup, 



^| HOSE who take an interest in looking from time to time into 

 our parish registers may have observed in the entries of 

 burial between the years 1678 — 1725 a notice that those buried 

 were buried in woollen, or in sheep's wool only, and that an affidavit 

 was brought to that effect : perhaps to some a few words of ex- 

 planation may not be unacceptable. 



