29 JANUARY 1927, Page 13

MORE PARISH REGISTERS.

Some delightful bits from old parish registers (in illustration of a verse quoted recently in this place) have reached me. One of the best historical notes conies from an East Anglian church. It is a short verse, as " E. M. H." explains, relating to the burial of the Lay Impropriator of the Great Tithes, and show.; the temper of the Clergy at that date-1636 - -r.-garding such appropriation :-

" Lord ! How he swells, as if lie had at least A Commonwealth reposing in his breast. Prodigious stomach ! Ali, ereulle deale He could devour whole Churches at a mottle. 'Tie very strange that Nature should deliver So good a stomach to so bad a liver !"