OLD REGISTERS IN RAT HOLES.
An eloquent argument in favour of tho movement for «ifcr custody of old registers is suggested by a statement of the Rev. Carllon Olive, rector of Warleggan, near Bodmin. Mr. Olive says that ho found Ihe old registers of his parish — dating from 1547 — used to stop rat. holes, while the iron chest in which they should have boon kept lnul been converted by .some convivial predecessor into a receptacle for empty bottles. Tho valuo of old registers lies not so much in the ordinary entries as in tho notes on passing events formerly inserted by Ibeir gossipy custodians. Thus, in the register of St. Nicholas, Durham, it is noted that on Bth August, 1592, five men "wero linngcd for being Egyptians." This grim entry throws more lurid light on those "spacious times" than many a tedious volume of the modern "scientific" historians.
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Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 150, 25 June 1904, Page 13
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148OLD REGISTERS IN RAT HOLES. Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 150, 25 June 1904, Page 13
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