St. Katharine Coleman " 1559 St. Lawrence, Jewry " 1538 —————— Pountney " 1538 St. Leonard, Eastcheap " 1538 St. Margaret Lothbury " 1558 —————— Pattens " 1653 [1559 Pop. ret.] St. Martin Orgars " 1625 ————— Outwick " 1678 [1670 Pop. ret.] ————— Vestry " 1671 [1668 Pop. ret.] St. Mary, Aldermanbury " 1538 St. Mary Magdalene, Old Fish Street " 1712 [1717 Pop. ret.] St. Mary Mounthaw " 1568 [1711 Pop. ret. A register evidently lost.] St. Mary Somerset " 1558 [1711 Pop. ret. A register missing.] St. Mary Woolchurch, and St. Mary Woolnorth, both in one " 1538 St. Michael, Cornhill, beg.
before 1546 —————— Royal begins 1558 St. Mildred, Poultry " 1538 St. Nicholas Acons " 1539 —————— Coleabby " 1695 [1538 Pop. ret.] —————— Olave " 1703 St. Peter, Cornhill " 1538 St. Peter le Poor " 1538 [1561 Pop. ret.] St. Stephen, Coleman Street " 1558 —————— Walbrook " 1557 St. Swithin " 1615 [1754 Pop. ret.] St. Andrew, Holborn " 1551 [1558 Pop. ret.] St. Bartholomew the Great " 1616 ——————— the Less " 1547 St. Botolph, Aldgate " 1558 St. Bride " 1653² St. Dunstan in the West " 1554 [1558 Pop. ret.] St. Sepulchre " 1663   Note.—The register prior burnt at the fire of London. St. Olave, Southwark. "Register said by 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.

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FOLK LORE.

Divination by Bible and Key seems not merely confined to this country, but to prevail in Asia. The following passage from Pérégrinations en Orient, par Eusèbe 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, près d'un natif Syrien Chrétien. Ils tenaient à eux deux une Bible, suspendue à une grosse clé par un mouchoir fin. Mistriss B. ne se rappelait pas avoir reçu un bijou qu'un Aleppin affirmait lui avoir remis. Le Syrien disait une prière, puis prononçait alternativement les noms de la dame et de l'Aleppin. La Bible pivota au nom de la dame déclarée par-là en erreur. Elle se leva à 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 as very effective, and certainly had plenty of evidence of the post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc order in its favour.

Is this practice prevalent in England?

It will be remarked that this belongs to the category of Vicarious Charms, which have in all times and in all ages, in great things and in small things, been one of the favourite resources of poor mortals in their difficulties. Such charms (for all analogous practices may be so called) are, in point of fact, sacrifices made on the principle so widely adopted,—qui facit per alium facit per se. The common witch-charm of melting an image of wax stuck full of pins before a slow fire, is a familiar