1702. Jan. 10 was Baptized Mary, daughter of
and Anne, his wife.

Jan. 10 was Baptized William, ye son of...
Anne, his wife.

...

and

1703. Sept. was Baptized Sarah, the daughter of John

Smith and Mary, his wife.

Dec. 14 was Baptized D

Griffin and Elizabeth, his wife.

y daughter of John

Dec. 26 was Baptized Anne, ye daughter of Robert
Laud and Mary, his wife.

Dec. 28 was Buryed Anne, y daughter of Robert Laud
and Mary, his wife.

Dec. 31 was Baptized Jonathan, ye son of Jonathan
Matthews and Alice, his wife.

Feb. 13 was Baptized Joseph, ye son of Sarah Luers:
of St. Aldate's parish. Spurius.

Feb. 14 was Buryed Robert Laud, of Whaddon.

1704. April 23 were Marryed

both of Moreton Valence.

and .. Bugby,

Feb. 4 was Baptized William, y son of
and....., of St. Aldate's parish.

Feb. 7 was Buried Joane Laud, Widow.

....

Feb. 25 was Baptized Martha, ye daughter of John
Stratton and Mary, his wife, of St. Aldate's parish.
March 17 was Buryed Edward Winchcombe.

1705. April 8 was Baptized Elizabeth, ye daughter of [John
Stratton] and Mary, his wife, of St. Aldate's parish.
Was Baptized Anne, ye daughter of Edward ..... and
Mary, his wife, of Whaddon.

Was Baptized Hannah, ye daughter of.....

Alice, his wife.

Was Baptized John, son of Thomas . . . .

his wife, of St. Aldate's.

Was Baptized John, ye son of John Randle.

and....

and

Nov... was Baptized Mary [], ye daughter of Mary
Robins, of Whaddon. Spurious.

Nov. 5 was Baptized Thomas, ye son of . . . . . Alanbury,
of Tuffley, Esqre, and ffrances, his wife.

Nov. 20 was Baptized Thomas, ye son of James ffarley
and Jane, his wife, of [St. Aldate's].

Nov. 30 was Buryed Mary, ye daughter of James
Matthews and Anne, bis wife, of Tuffley.

Dec. 3 was Baptized Edward, the son of Robert Laud
and Mary, his wife, of Whaddon.

Dec. 23 was Baptized Mary, ye daughter of James
Matthews and Anne, his wife, of Tuffley.

Dec. 23 was Baptized [Francis ?], ye son of [Richard ?]
Matthews and Sarah, his wife, of Whaddon.

Oct. 8 was Baptized Elizabeth, ye daughter of John
Watts and Mary, his wife.

Oct. 24 were marryed John Merrett and Joan [?] Bamford,
of Whaddon.

Nov. 7 was Baptized Samuel, ye son of Robert Board and Mary, his wife, of Whaddon.

Dec. 18 was Baptized George, ye son of James ffarley
and Jane, his wife, of St. Aldate's.

Dec. 22 was Baptized Elizabeth, ye daughter of James
Nash and Anne, his wife, of Whaddon.

Dec. 31 was Baptized Sa..

and Mary, his wife.

Jan. 6 was Baptized. .

... of Richard Chell

of Thomas Cobb.

......

Was Baptized Samuel, ye son of William . and
Mary, his wife, of Tuffley.

....

Were Marryed Jonathan Voyl [?] and Price [1],
both of the City of Glouc1.

Were Marryed John Bullock [1] and Jane.
of Kempley, at ye Magdalen Chappel.
Was Baptized Laura [?], daughter of
and ffrances, his wife, of St. Aldate's.

......

.....

both

Williams

Was Baptized John, ye son of Thomas...... and Jone, his wife, of St. Aldate's.

Was Baptized Richard, ye son of

Mary, his wife.

Were Marryed John Spencer and .

M.....-Vaisins.

and

of

July 11 was Baptized James, ye son of [James] ffarley

and Jane, his wife, of St. Aldate's.

July 30 was Buryed John Wood.

Aug. 2 was Baptized Thomas, ye son of Thomas Somers and Mary, his wife.

Sept. 16 was Buryed Richard...

Sept. 22 was Baptized Hannah, ye daughter of John
Griffin and Elizabeth, his wife.

Nov. 1 was Baptized James, [ye son] of Edward .....
and ...
his wife.

1749.-EXTRACTS FROM SAPPERTON CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 1730-1787.-These extracts, which have been made verbatim et literatim, may prove interesting to some readers, and therefore I send them.

Sapperton Rectory, Cirencester.

1730. paid for foxheads....

HUGH CROPPER,

£8. d. 0.2.0

2

1.0

1761. Wee Dwo Denomenate and A Poynt Richard Stratford and Wiliom Garnder Church Worners for ye yer in Suing.

2.2

6.4

...

11 8

12 6

1.0

1.0

5.0

1.0

......

1.0

5.0

6.0

Paid for two foxes

2.0

1781. Church completely restored at expense of 68 192 1787. Nov. 21. To a poor Distressed seaman...

9.0

.....

2.0

1787. Nov. 21. Jas. Townsend, 1 doz. Sparrows Do., Do., 2 doz. Do......... Dan Dixes Boy, 20 Sparrows Humphry Moors Boy, 3 doz. sparrows....

To Mrs Fowler, for 12 yards &
half Holland, for a surplis
pd for makeing, etc........

pd to

Partner my

The Clarks sallarie

£ s. d. 3

6

.5

9

1.17 6

4.6

9.9

9.0

1750.-GREAT MORTALITY AND DISTRESS IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 1729. (See Nos. 255, 316.) We have a melancholy account from Gloucestershire, that a contagious distemper rages there, which kills people very suddenly, and sometimes whole families die together, some by swellings in the throat and other parts of the body, which, except they break, take people off in 24 hours. They have buried in the village of Ashton Underhill (near Tewkesbury) above 45 persons since Christmas last, and of the inhabitants, whose number did not exceed 100, there are found to be more than have dy'd in that place in twenty years past. Most of the other neighbouring villages are in the same miserable condition, and what with poverty and sickness, the people are in the most deplorable circumstances; few labourers are able to work, and those that do have double wages; poor's rates are excessive, being above seven shillings in the pound in several parishes, which, together with the scarcity of corn, has drove the farmers to such despair, that several farms in that rich country are left on the gentlemen's hands, and very few are able to pay any rent.-Brice's Weekly Journal, May 9, 1729. T. N. BRUSHFIELD, M.D.

Budleigh Salterton.

1751.-A PLAGUE OF COCKCHAFFERS, A.D. 1574.-(Reply to No. 1716.) I would refer your correspondent to my Records of the Seasons, etc., p. 132, under February 24, 1575, where he will find an extract from Holinshed to this effect:-After a flood which was not great at Tewkesbury, there came down the Severn great numbers of flies and beetles a foot thick above the water. The mills thereabout were dammed up with them for the space of four days after, and then were cleansed by digging them out with shovels. From whence they came is yet unknown, but the day was cold and a hard frost. THOS. H. BAKER.

Mere Down, Mere.

1752.-DERIVATION OF THE NAME "BLANKET."-(Replies to No. 1718.) The following communications have lately appeared in Notes and Queries, 7th S. vii. 238 :—

(1) Thomas Blanket was one of three Flemish brothers, clothmakers in Bristol, and was in 1340 ordered by a local court to pay a heavy fine "for having caused various machines for weaving and making woollen cloths to be set up in his houses, and for having hired weavers and other workmen for this purpose." And in a licence to the officers of the port of Bristol permitting the Pope's collector to export certain household goods in the year 1382, are enumerated "duos blanketos pro uno lecto." But we find the word in different forms before the fourteenth century. Ducange gives a quotation from a monastic rule of 1152, where certain clothing is ordered to be made "de blancheto." In an article in the Quarterly Review for 1846 the idea that blankets take their name from one Thomas Blanket is ridiculed.CONSTANCE RUSSELL, Swallowfield, Reading.

(2) The derivation of this word is generally attributed to the name of the first manufacturer of the article, who is sometimes said to have been a Flemish weaver settled in Bristol. In an article on this city in the Saturday Review recently this latter derivation was given, but Blanket was a surname in England as early as the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, so it is not necessary to search beyond our own country for the name.-B. FLORENCE SCARLETT.

(3) I have always understood that these articles of creature comfort were named after the man who first manufactured them, a native, or at all events a parishioner, of St. Stephen's parish, Bristol.-E. WALFORD, M.A., 7, Hyde Park Mansions, N.W.

(4) The date of the supposed Thomas Blanket, of Bristol, is 1340, and it would probably be difficult to get behind that. The name, however, was formerly applied to white garments and to a white pear (Pyrum subalbidum in Littleton), from which it would. appear that blanc is the root, as Murray, Skeat, and other modern etymologists tell us.-C. C. B.

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1753. THE JEWS' BURIAL-GROUND AT GLOUCESTER. "quiet resting-place" opens out of Organ's-passage, Eastgate-street, by a door in the wall. On entering, we find ourselves in a plot of ground of about 14 by 11 paces in extent, and almost wholly occupied by headstones bearing Hebrew inscriptions. By the wall next to Organ's-passage has been a fireplace, the brickwork of which remains, the survival of a watchhouse for protection against "body-snatchers," and for the washing of bodies previous to interment. The case of Dorcas (Acts ix. 37) is familiar to us all. But it is not so generally known that in London in the 13th century there was a special public provision for this purpose. In an article on 66 Ancient London Cemeteries" by Mr. M. D. Davis, in the Jewish Chronicle of Nov. 16, 1888, we find that at the sale of Jewish properties which took place at the expulsion in 1290, amongst