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freest possible access to the Register; and, also, for information that has been helpful respecting some matters, connected with the ecclesiastical history of the parish, upon which I have touched in the foregoing Introductory Notes. On the same subject, and on some others to which I have adverted. I have consulted, I believe, all the historical works that are locally authoritative; among which should be particularly mentioned Lipscomb's "History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham," and the articles on Chesham and Latimer which were contributed respectively by the late Rev. Charles Lowndes, a member of a leading Chesham family, and the late Rev. Bryant Burgess, Rector of Latimer, to Vols. III. and VI, of the "Records of Buckinghamshire, the publication of the county Archæological Society. In endeavouring to make these Notes comprehensive, in a cursory and necessarily fragmentary way, of the matters of interest that seem to be suggested by the Register, I have had recourse to many other sources of information; and I am especially beholden to Burn's "Registrum Ecclesiae Parochialis," and to Waters's "Parish Registers in England,' for the help these works have afforded me in dealing with the general subject of registration.

J. W. GARRETT-PEGGE.

Chesham House, Chesham Bois, Bucks.