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VI. Some Natural Obfervations made in the Varifies 
of Kinardfey and Donington in Shroplhire, hy 
the Reverend Mr. George Plaxton. Communicated 
by Mr. Ralph Thoresby, to T>r . Hans Sloane, 
% S. Seer . 
■SIR, 
Y OU have oftentimes de fired me to give you an Ac- 
count of fuch Obfervations as t had made in my 
Parishes in ithrbpfhire, and in feme of the neighbouring 
Villages ; my poor Remarks are hardly worth your no- 
tice , however to drew you that 1 cannot deny you any 
thing, I now fend them, or feme part of them. 
Anno 1673, I was prefented to the Vicarage ot Sheriff e- 
Halef, and alfo to the Re dory of IGnnardfey, the former 
in the Counties of Salop and Staff. The other wholly in 
Shropshire. November 6 . I was induded into the Parfon- 
age of Kinnardfey, where I was incumbent for 30 Years 
and upwards ; at my Indudion I found a great many 
Aged People in the Parifh, upon which I took the Number 
of the Inhabitants, and found that every fixth Soul was 
Sixty Kars of Age, and upwards, fome were 85 and feme 
90 $ this I could not but wonder at, confidering that the 
Town was furrounded with a large Morafs, overflowed 
in Winter, and that you could not come into the Parifh 
any way upon Arable Land. At my Entrance there, I 
found neither Gentleman nor Begger, nor any fort of Dif- 
fenter from the Churchy there had been no Law Suit 
amongft them in the Memory of Man, nor was any com- 
menced 
