The poore's rate of St. Giles-in-the-fields, London, comes to six
thousand pounds per annum. [The sixth chapter of Mr. Rowland Dobie's
"History of the United Parishes of St. Giles- in-the-Fields and St.
George, Bloomsbury," (8vo. 1829) contains some curious and interesting
"historical sketches of pauperism." Speaking of the parish
workhouse, the author says, "It contains on an average from 800 to 900
inmates, which is however but a small proportion to the number
constantly relieved, at an expense [annually] of nearly forty thousand
pounds."-J. B.]
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Dunhead St. Mary.-The reason why so few marriages are found in the
register bookes of these parts is that the ordinary sort of people goe
to Ansted to be married, which is a priviledged church; and they come
40 and 50 miles off to be married there.
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Of periodicall small-poxes. - Small-pox in Sherborne dureing the year
1626, and dureing the yeare 1634; from Michaelmas 1642 to Michaelmas
1643; from Michaelmas 1649 to Michaelmas 1650; &c. Small-pox in
Taunton all the year 1658; likewise in the yeare 1670, &c. I would I
had the like observations made in great townes in Wiltshire; but few
care for these things.
It hath been observed that the plague never fix't (encreased) in
Bridgenorth in Salop. Also at Richmond it never did spread; but at
Petersham, a small village a mile or more distant, the plague made so
great a destruction that there survived only five of the inhabitants.
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