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NOTES AND
AND QUERIES:

Medium of Enter-Communication

FOR

LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,

GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of."- CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

VOLUME SECOND.

MAY-DECEMBER, 1850.

LONDON:

GEORGE BELL, 186. FLEET STREET.

1851.

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We cannot resist the opportunity which the com-
mencement of our Second Volume affords us, of ad-
dressing a few words of acknowledgment to our friends
both contributors and readers. In the short space of
seven months, we have been enabled by their support
to win for "NOTES AND QUERIES" no unimportant po-
sition among the literary journals of this country. We
came forward for the purpose of affording the literary
brotherhood of this great nation an organ through
which they might announce their difficulties and re-

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PARISH REGISTERS.STATISTICS.

Among the good services rendered to the public
by yourself and your correspondents, few, I think,
will be found more important than that of having
drawn their attention to Mr. Wyatt Edgell's valu-
able suggestions on the transcription of Parochial
Registers. The supposed impracticability of his
plan has perhaps hitherto deterred those most
competent to the work from giving it the consider-
ation which it deserves. I believe the scheme to
be perfectly practicable; and, as a first move in
the work, I send you the result of my own deal-
ings with the registers of my parish.

It is many years since I felt the desideratum
which Mr. Edgell has brought before the public;

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