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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