304 Collections for a History of West Dean. 



A memorandum, inserted at a later date (18-38) at the end of this 

 register, of the repair of East Grimstead Chape], has been noticed 

 under that head, at p. 298. 



The third register is a quarto, bound in Russia leather, and pre- 

 pared in a somewhat elaborate printed form, for the entries of 

 baptisms at one end and of burials at the other ; it is entitled 

 " Proposed Form of Register, &c./' and, I suppose, was never 

 generally adopted. The maiden names of married women are given, 

 and, when it could be ascertained, the cause of death. A sensible 

 preface, setting forth the utility of parochial registers, and the best 

 mode of keeping them and churchyards in order, is repeated at 

 either end. And there are blank leaves for the insertion of memo- 

 randa, among which is the return already mentioned of the number 

 of baptisms, marriages, and burials during three periods of twenty 

 years each, the first beginning in 1688, the second in 1730, 

 the third in 1760; of the number of inhabitants in 1783 [one 

 hundred and eighty-five in West Dean, one hundred and eighteen 

 in East Grimstead] ; of the quota furnished to the triennial service 

 of the national militia [one man in three years] ; the number of 

 houses [thirty-seven in West Dean, thirty-five in East Grimstead] ; 

 the number charged to the window- tax and 3s. house duty [in West 

 Dean, nineteen, in East Grimstead, ten] ; of the number of families 

 [in West Dean, thirty-five, in East Grimstead, twenty-one] ; of the 

 number of those whose families may be said to be increasing [in 

 West Dean, sixteen, in East Grimstead, eleven] ; of enclosures 

 [made to a considerable extent between fifty and sixty years ago] ; 

 of inoculation [not practised here in general]. Another return, 

 furnished in 1801, gives the number of baptisms, marriages, and 

 burials from the year 1781 to 1800 inclusive, and of marriages from 

 1761 to 1780 inclusive. And there are particulars of the different 

 sorts of grain grown in the parish in 1801, as follows : — wheat, 

 two hundred and seventy acres ; buckwheat, four ; barley, two 

 hundred and seventy-one ; potatoes, five ; peas, twenty-three ; beans, 

 six ; turnips or rape, fifty ; rye, one \ total, seven hundred and 

 thirty-seven. 



The only other memorandum is to the effect that " the Influenza 



