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St. Thomas-by-Launceston (Cornwall).
1558. Received from Mark Olyver for Hoggeners
1587.' Received for the Hoggeners bread, 14s. 6d.
1596. Of Mr. Will Blighe, for Hognor bred, 3d. ; of Walter Grayne, for Hognor bred, 4d. ; of Robert Gordg, for Hognor bred, 4d. ; and so as to 4 other named persons, 4d., 2d., 2d., and M. ; followed by ' Received for Hognor bred at Christide, 4s. Gd.'
Ashwater (Devon).
1664. Received of the Hognor Store II. 10s. 6d. ; paid for gathering the Hognor Store, 3s. ; paid for makeinge ye Horner Rate, Is.
These dates cover periods when the Pope claimed supremacy in the English Church when that supre- macy was maintained by our Royal Sovereigns and after Cromwell's Protectorate. Will your readers, clergymen and churchwardens from their registers and accounts or otherwise, or antiquaries in general, kindly give to the public through your columns (or if preferred, direct to me) information respecting the origin, objects, appropriation, cause of cessation, &c., of this fund, the hogenstore, the hognor bread ? It has been suggested that as Hogmena was a name formerly applied to December, any gift during that month was for the hogenstore. This view leaves unexplained even the form of the extracted entries and all the purposes of the charity. The modern Scottish celebration of Hogmena on the 31st day of December at midnight by songs, shouts, bells, &c., is an intelligible tribute to old December as Hogmena."
DUNHEVED.
THE GREAT PLAGUE, 1665. Some time since, through the courtesy of the then Master of the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks, I was allowed to examine some of the printed Bills of Mortality in the possession of this ancient City company. I was particularly interested in the little volume for the year 1665, and from it culled a few valuable notes, which may be of interest as supplementing the remarks in the review (ante, p. 139) of Mr. Thiselton Dyer's ' Old English Social Life as told by the Parish Registers.' The title-page is inscribed as follows :
London's Dreadfxil Visitation : Or, A Collection of All the
Bills of Mortality
For this Present year :
Beginning the 27 th of December 1664, and
ending the 19 th of December following :
As also The General or whole years Bill :
According to the Report made to the
King's Most Excellent Majesty,
By the Company of Parish-Clerks of London, &c.
(Royal Arms) (City Arms) (Parish Clerks' Arms)
London : Printed and are to be sold by E. Cotes living in
Aldersgate-street, Printer to the said Company 1665.
A preface of two pages is addressed from the printer to the " Courteous Reader," and consists mainly of a pious homily concerning the dreadful visitation whereby "many
thousands" have been "in One year swept
away with the Beesome of a Temporal De-
struction." The writer eventually brings him-
self to book with the statement that he is "a
Printer no Preacher." Reference is made to
the visitation of 1625, " which year was ever
since called The Great Plague"; and the
address ends by an expression of the hope
"that neither the Physitiaris of our Souls
or Bodies, may hereafter in such great
numbers forsake us ; and that neither my
self, or any other of my Profession, may have
occasion, for the future, to Print such Dread-
ful lines."
The numbers of people who died of the plague are thus recorded on the fifty-two pages which follow :
Week ending Deaths.
27 December, 1664 1
14 February, 1665 1
25 April 2
9 May 9
16 May 3
23 May 14
30 May 17
6 June 43
13 June 112
20 June 168
27 June 267
4 July 470
11 July 725
18 July 1089
25 July 1843
1 August 2010
8 August 2817
15 August 3880
22 August 4237
29 August 6102
5 September 6988
12 September 6544
19 September 7165
26 September 5533
3 October 4929
10 October 4327
17 October 2665
24 October 1421
31 October 1031
7 November 1414
14 November 1050
21 November 652
28 November 333
5 December 210
12 December 243
19 December 281
Total 68596
In the heaviest week, 12 to 19 September, 126 parishes were affected.
JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.
MENUS WITH QUOTATIONS. (See 6 th S. i. 312.) The fashion of embellishing menus with quotations has grown since the appear- ance in ' N. & Q.' of the classical bill of fare given at the above reference. Not long ago
