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Mr . Barker's Register , &c. 
it from May-day till Lammas, but not longer, for fear of kill- 
ing them. As he seems to have been bred a singing boy at 
Wallingford, the requiem ceternam probably refers to some 
hymn he there sang. 
But, I suppose, this method of milking ewes was not found 
to answer upon the whole, for it is left off in England now. 
I never was in any part of it where it is practised at present ; 
though by the increase of inclosure, and sowing of seeds, we 
have better pasture for our ewes than Tusser had. I think it 
must be very bad for the lambs to be weaned at May-day, 
which is often before the grass is fully come, though his lambs 
were earlier than ours ; for it appears in his January's Hus- 
bandry, that the ewes were about lambing then, whereas ours 
do not come till Lady-day. We do not wean our cade-lambs 
till June, in the height of summer, and then they are not so 
good as those which go with ewes till the latter end of 
August. 
Note. The foregoing Register contained also some account of the earthquake of 
February 25 ; but as an account of it is already given by Mr. Barker, in Mr.TuR- 
nor’s paper on the Earthquake, it is omitted here. 
