1802.} Statiftical Account of the Parifh of Crofbyravenfwarth. 535 
to infer, that a depopulation took place 
during that period. From 1700, how- 
ever, to the prefent time, the number of 
inhabitants has evidently increafed ; though 
it is more than probable, that this parifh 
is not nearly fo populous now, as it was 
200 years ago. 
Baptifms. ; 
Years. : Burials. 
Males. | Females.) Total. 
1695 3 15 23 18 
1696 12 es 23 19 
1697 9 it 20 26 
1698 7  g “16 16 
1699 7 4 iI 21 
1700 11 6 17 17 
1701 3 9 17 17 
1702 9 5 ge) 19 23 
3703 3 13 16 22 
1704 6 4. 10 ra 
Total 80 92 | 1g2 | 192 
To afcertain as much as poffible the 
increafe of population, we fubjoin an ab- 
ftraét of the annual number of baptifms, 
(diftinguifhing males from females), and 
of burials, for ten years together, in dif- 
ferent centuries.* 
Baptifms. 
Years. Burials 
| Males. | Females. Total, 
1792 Bs 7 19 7 
1793 6 8 14. 9 
1794 9, 12 21 8 
1795 10 5) 17 5 
4796 10 9 19 9 
1797 7 i 18 9 
1798 15 6 21 15 
1799 3 17 25 6 
1800 17 9 2.6 8 
1301 3 8 16 9. 
Total | 102 94. | 196 85 
From this abftraét of theParifli Regifter, 
i¢ appears, that the number of baptifms 
in the laft ten years, has exceeded thofe 
in the preceding century by 24, though 
the number of burials during the fame 
period is confiderably lefs. ‘There are, 
upon an average, about five marriages 
yearly; but in 1604 we find 13 marriages 
recorded ; and in other years.near the fame 
time, a fimilar proportion may be obferved. 
In 1604 were alfo 34 baptifms, and in 
1606, 30 baptifms: both of which num- 
bers greatly exceed thofe of later periods, 
for the fame fpace of time. 
In 1623 were no fewer than.105 burials, 
and in 1624, 54. This great excefs of 
mortality muft have been occafioned by 
fome epidemical diftemper then prevalent, 
and perhaps by the {mall pox, which we are 
told was originally imported into this coun- 
try from Arabia, though at what time it 
made its firft appearance here, is unknown. 
‘The number of deaths, however, which hap- 
pened in thofe two years, was more than 
one fifth of the prefent inhabitants, and 
in a fatisfactory manner accounts for the 
diminution of baptifms and marriages in 
fubfequent periods. ke 
According to probable calculation, there 
will be about 181 work-horfes in the pa- 
rifh, fome of which are occafonally ufed 
for the faddle; and about 120 young hor- 
- fes, yet unbreke to labour; the value of 
which may be eftimated at from sl. to 
20]. eich. t 
The cows in genera] are of an excellent 
breed, and of the long-horned kind, fome 
of which, when beef is eight-pence or nine- 
pence a pound, (a price that we with it 
may never reach again), can be fed to the 
value of 3ol. or gol. each; but they are 
commonly fold for 20]. or under. There 
are 500 cows in the parifh. 160 heifer 
calves are kept every year; and the reft | 
are flaughtered. . 
The {wine here, as in other parts of 
Weftmoreland, though not large, are ex- 
cellent in their kind. Farmers and but- 
chers frequently difpofe of the hams to 
perfons who make a trade of curing and 
felling them. We know not that there is 
any thing peculiar in the mode of preparing 
hams in this country; and perhaps they 
receive that excellent flavour, for which’ 
they are fo much and juftly efteemed, in 
preference to thole of other counties, from 
the great open chimnies in which they are 
hung, and from the fmoke of peats ufed 
as fuel. The hams are firft rubbed very 
hard, generally with a mixture of falt- 
petre and bay-falt, in the proportion of 
* The reafon for not making ufe of the 
fame, years in each century, was that fome 
{mali imperfeétions were vifible in the Re- 
gifter, f 
rather 
