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in any district,(viz. that of ten villages on the Trent near Newark) to the deaths, where the actual numbers living were taken. In about eighty villages near Retford, the deaths turned out about one in forty-five, and in a good many, about Southwell the same. In the distri&t about Mansfield(fourteen parishes) one in fifty-five, owing probably to the number of children,&c. from other coun- ties employed in the mills and manufaétories.

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t+ In the places thus marked, the totals of births and burials were by mistake taken for six years, but have been reduced to the average of five, and the numbers of inhabitants having been taken from house to house makes it quite immaterial

* In the places marked thus, the births and burials were taken for five years, ending 1792, the returns of 1793 not being then made into the office at Southwell, which, it is apprehended, would make little or no dif- ference, and in most of them the numbers were taken from house to house.

§ In the two places marked thus, the inspection of the ‘register, was by the Rev. Thomas Clark, Vicar of Normanton, and Curate of Marnham, expressly refused to any person coming from Sir Richard Sutton, but the numbers were taken from house to house.

{Multiplying the average of burials by thirty-two, ac- cording to the paper annexed, marked(B) will not bring out the full number of 25000, but a gentleman who had a great share in drawing that paper, is per- suaded that number is not too high, especially as there are congregations of dissenters who do not register; and the dissenters in some villages near Nottingham would somewhat raise the total of the county.

The paper marked B will shew the increase of Notting-

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ham, since 177