_Bray's Survey_ to be as early as
1586. Vide vol. i. 111-607; but on a
search made this day it appears that
the register does not begin till
1685. Qy. if not a book
lost?--5th Oct. 1829." [1685 Pop. ret.]
St. George, Southwark, beg. abt. 1600 [1602 Pop. ret.]
St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, begins
1548 (Lysons); but from end of 1642
to 1653 only two entries made; viz.
one in Nov. 1643, and another Aug.
1645, which finishes the first
volume; and the second volume
begins in 1653.
St. Saviour, Southwark, begins temp. Eliz. [1570 Pop. ret.]
St. Thomas, Southwark, begins 1614.

ROB. COLE.

[Footnote 2: _Note in the Book_--There are registers before this in
the hands of Mr. Pridden.]

* * * * *

FOLK LORE.

_Divination by Bible and Key_ seems not merely confined to this
country, but to prevail in Asia. The following passage from
_Peregrinations en Orient_, par Eusebe de Salle, vol. i. p. 167.,
Paris, 1840, may throw some additional light on this superstition.
The author is speaking of his sojourn at Antioch, in the house of the
_English_ consul.

"En rentrant dans le salon, je trouvai Mistriss B. assise sur son
divan, pres d'un natif Syrien Chretien. Ils tenaient a eux deux une
Bible, suspendue a une grosse cle par un mouchoir fin. Mistriss B. ne
se rappelait pas avoir recu un bijou qu'un Aleppin affirmait lui avoir
remis. Le Syrien disait une priere, puis prononcait alternativement
les noms de la dame et de l'Aleppin. La Bible pivota au nom de la dame
declaree par-la en erreur. Elle se leva a l'instant, et ayant fait des
recherches plus exactes, finit par trouver le bijou."

I hardly think that this would be an English superstition transplanted
to the East; it is more probable that it was originally derived frown
Syria.

E.C.

Newcastle-on-Tyne, May 19. 1850.

_Charm for Warts_.--Count most carefully the number of warts; take a
corresponding number of nodules or knots from the stalks of any of the
_cerealia_ (wheat, oats, barley); wrap these in a cloth, and deposit
the packet in the earth; _all the steps of the operation being done
secretly_. As the nodules decay the warts will disappear. Some artists
think it necessary that each wart should be _touched_ by a separate
nodule.

This practice was very rife in the north of Scotland some fifty years
since, and no doubt is so still. It was regarded