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 382 ST. THOMAS CHURCH. churchway in S fc Thomas Strecte." A few days previously — viz., 19th October, 1659 — the jury had presented "the vvante of a Cuckingstoole;" and on the 12th April, 1664, they presented the want both of " a Cage and Cucking- stoole near S l. Thomas Bridge." In the year 1700 this cuckingstoole was said to be " defective/' and we hear no more of it. " S* Thomas Street," and a little cluster of houses at Tregadylet, seem always to have supplied a large proportion of the population resident within the parochial boundary. Trethorne, Carnedon, Tresmarrow, Landreyne, Dockacre, and Tredidon represent to-day, as they did hundreds of years ago, a majority of the scattered homesteads in the parish. The fourteen burials in 1 596 ; the cited rates of 1 619, 1630, and 1646 ; and a loose copy which we found of the register for 1652, showing in that year three mar- riages, nineteen baptisms, and eight burials, guide us to the conclusion that the combined inhabitants have usually been numerically inconsiderable. In the register-book, commencing 1673 and ending 1729, we noticed that the minister for the years 1704-8 dis- tinguished, in many instances, the place of abode of the person baptized or married, by adding the words " of this Street" (or "of the Street"), "of this Parish" (or "the Parish"), to the name of such person; and, in a similar way, this minister records the place of death of each person buried. In the same book are these entries : " 1697. 12 Janary. Robart Gill and Mary his wife had a dafter baptized, named Mary, by a desenting Minister" " 1699. 12 Febry. Robart Gill & Mary his wife had a Son baptized, named Robart, by a desenting Minister" The italicised words are in a slightly different handwriting. This name " Gill '" tempts us to make an extract from the Dunheved jury presentments of the 3rd February, 1653-4: " Wee present