The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-12

ground There h no leveller like v,,,.
parish register. oven though 1t doe,
preserve titles and distinctions and M
trappings Of the show; the trappinv.
are plainly enough labelled as such.
Some quaint entries have found that,
way into the battered old books. :.
one Of them Is an item pertaining To ~.
provenance Of Queen Elizabeth's roysi
stables:
Nd. that the p'shioners hattie asrssA a.
delyvsr into the ouenss Maisstss Barns. y.
the Mewss Two Loodss Of GOOD swe... A..
drys hey Of the hrst mowings svery ,oss J.
contsyns zxHvj trussss ana every trus,s :.
waye IL ID waiEht to be delivered r,,.,,.
At or befuss the hrsss Of Aususts nara.
ensewynss FER the use Of her Hishns
horses there.
Also the said yshisDers are ssr,.s ..
enter ana record the said Agreements in thar.
churchs books and ysrsly when IN. ~,
ohswss the surveyors Of the hish vai.s IN,
then to chewss the Cesscr- for the R.,v,,.
OF every man for the said servys OF h.v
according to the porcion Of srownds ,h.,
the partis then occupisthe
The word "mewez," news. IA said "a
have been applied to the royal stables,
on the north side OF Charing Cross an,
to have retained that sense because IN
stables were built on the site where IN
royal hawks had formerly been new,
Another etymology Is appended 70 en-
tries referring to the scullerv. M
pantry, the laundry. the kitchen an
1.-THE black garde," applied to servan n
at Whitehall Palace. The "black gard,
was descriptive Of the lowest drudgoV
or the court establishment. carriers ok
coal and wood. scullions. &C.: hence M
the editors theory "blackguard"
Not much light is to be had upon IN.
size OF the city's population; aside fro,ri
a rough numbering OF the people AZ ths,
time of the Spanish Armada there wa 4
no attempt at general census un,f
1901. Estimates OF population prior "a
that year have to be based upon rec.
ords like this Of births and deaths In
the 121 years OF ST. Margaret's history
hero recorded by contemporary scrly.
eners and summarized by the modern
editor there were 36.763 christening,
and 1888 burials. The statistics ara
dull, but the catalogue OF fatal diseases
is picturesque. "Agewe" appears In
various forms, burning, fervent "the
new sickness" "this new decese," In.
fuenza. OF which there was great
historical wave" In 1857. This som.
mer,' reads a contemporary record
"reigned in England divers strange
and new sycknesses, takinge men and
weomen in theyr heades; as strange
agues and fevers. whereof manye died"
Another chronlcler records the loss BY
this "straunge feuer" OF many Of the
wealthiest men al England through"
And Stow notes the death from N,
same ailment OF "many olde people and
specially priests" or 1s1 deaths en-.
tered between May IS and November q
OF 1867 this new sickness" was the
cause OF eighty-one. "Consumptyone"
or "pynyng sickness" caused forty-sly
famine" sixteen. 'fiuxe" twelve, "sur.
fett' five. "pockes" four.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth cen.
turtles the urban population was afflicted
with recurrent vsitations OF plague. IN
these records the first specific mention
or bubonic, a departure from the earlls
use OF the word plague" TO denote 70.
discriminatory the sweating sickness
and other pandemcs, is dated June o.
1853, and In the next fourscore YEAR,
$3.50 Of the burial entries are marked
"pla." In 1875 there was an epidemic
general throughout the country AMI
severely felt in Westminster, from
which the city Of London was oddly
wholly exempt. In 10000 779 per
cent. or the st. Margaret's burial entries
indicate plague; for a period in 1853
the percentage Is 91S. Between 1853
and 1647 the lowest percentage is 10
In 1911.
This we'll made volume is distinguished
by the presence of twenty-six fine ful
page portraits of British celebrities 10
various sorts Of the fifteenth and sn.
teenth centuries.