16 
NATURAL HISTORY 
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 barragons, 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 an end/ 
The inhabitants enjoy a good share of health and lon- 
gevity j and the parish swarms with children. 
A Table of the Baptisms, Burials, and Marriages, from January 2, 
1761, to December 25, 1780, in tlie Parish of Selborne. 
Baptisms. 
BCRIALS. 
Marri- 
ages. 
Males. 
Females. 
Totel. 
Males. 
Females. 
Total, 
1761 . 
8 
10 
18 
2 
4 
6 
3 
1762 . 
7 
8 
15 
10 
14 
24 
6 
1763 . 
8 
10 
18 
3 
4 
7 
5 
1764 . 
11 
9 
20 
10 
8 
18 
6 
1765 . 
12 
6 
18 
9 
7 
16 
6 
1766 . 
9 
13 
22 
10 
6 
16 
4 
1767 . 
14 
5 
19 
6 
5 
11 
2 
1768 . 
7 
6 
13 
2 
5 
7 
6 
1769 . 
9 
14 
23 
6 
5 
11 
2 
1770 . 
10 
13 
23 
4 
7 
11 
3 
1771 . 
10 
6 
16 
3 
4 
7 
4 
1772 . 
11 
10 
21 
6 
10 
16 
3 
1773 . 
8 
5 
13 
7 
5 
12 
3 
1774 . 
6 
13 
19 
2 
8 
10 
1 
1775 . 
20 
7 
27 
13 
8 
21 
6 
1776 . 
11 
10 
21 
4 
6 
10 
6 
1777 . 
13 
21 
7 
3 
10 
4 
1778 . 
^7 
13 
20 
3 
4 
7 
5 
1779 . 
14 
8 
22 
5 
6 
11 
5 
1780 . 
8 
9 
17 
] 1 
4 
15 
3 
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. — G. W. 
^ Since the passage above was written, 1 am bappy m being able to 
say that the spinning employment is a little revived, to the no sir.all 
comfort of the industrious housewife. — G. W. 
