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and neglected too long, have been followed by very 
direful circumftances. I have known a young gen- 
tleman to have great hard fwellings about his head, 
and become epileptic, lohng his fenfes as he advanced 
in years, from a blow with the back of a book given 
him by a matter. I am, with due refped. 
The Society’s 
Sept. 1 8 . 1757. Mott obedient Servant, 
James Parfons. 
XLIII. An ExtraEl of the Regifler of the 
Parifj of Great Shefford, near Lamborne, 
in Berklhire, for Pen Years : With Ob- 
fervations on the fame : In a Letter to 
Tho. Birch, D. D. Secret. R. S. from the 
Rev. Mr, Richard Forfter, ReElor of Great 
Shefford. 
Great Shefford, near Lamborne, 
Rev. Sir, Berks, July 8. 1757. 
Read Nov. i7>T T THEN I fettled in the country, 
VV abundant leifure enabled me to 
keep an exad paritti-regifter. I have now finittied 
ten years, I trutt, with fufhcient care, having exa- 
mined every thing accurately myfelf. The fight of 
three letters, lately published in the Tranfadions, 
upon the fubjed of political arithmetic, put me upon 
over- 
