MAMBLE.--Vicarage, with house, garden, and tithes, worth £25; patron, the Lord Protector; incumbent, Daniel Mullurd, "who by reason of his age and weakness is not able to supply the cure but hath p'vided Tymothy Pyp (?) to officiate there who preacheth duely ev'y Lord's Day and receaveth the p'ffiitts for his sallary and paynes takeing there."--Bayton is in this return said to be worth £30, and the church "is fitt to be united to Mamble (it being the more convenyent church both for largeness and fittness for the people to meete there)" [They were accordingly united March 6, 1669.] DODDENHAM.--"Imprimis, the parsonage of Doddenham and Knightewicke have ever time oute of minde belonged to one man. They are very unfitt (as wee conceive) to bee divided having ever beene united and are both very well worth £60 p. ann. Reprizes goeing oute of the same wee knowe none butt only 2s. 8d. a yeare that is paid to Mr. Henry Pitt of London." Glebe and tithes, £30. The Dean and Chapter were formerly the patrons, "butt since the sale of Deane and Chapter land, wee conceive Mr. Henry Pitt to be the patron thereof. The cure of both parishes Mr. Tayler beeing sequesterd is now supplyed by Mr. Mathew Boulton whoe receiveth the profittes thereof, whoe is an honest man, an able scoller, and a sound devine, as wee suppose him to bee." In Knightwick there were twenty families, and in Doddenham thirty-one. ASTLEY.--Rectory, worth £110. John Winford, Esq., patron; Mr. Samuel Bowater, the "able minister, who constantly preacheth twice a day." SHRAWLEY.--Patron, the Lord Protector; value, £80; Mr. John Jordan the "preaching minister." The living not fit to be united or divided. Superstitions. "In all cases of preternatural pretensions a nice question must always present itself--as to how many of the believers are fools, how many of them knaves, and how many both one and the other." In some parts of this county the following things are considered unlucky: To meet a squinting woman, unless you speak to her, which breaks the charm. To go a journey on a Friday. To be one of a party of thirteen at Christmas. To have a cut onion lying about in the house breeds distemper. To cross knives accidentally at meal times. To walk under a ladder. For the first young lamb you see in a season, or a colt, to have its tail towards you. To kill a lady-cow (in Dorsetshire called "God Almighty's cow"). For a sportsman to meet an old woman when going out shooting is a sure sign of bad sport. To put the bellows on a table will evoke a quarrel. To keep Christmas holly about the house after Candlemas Day, in which case it is believed the Father of Evil will come and pull it down himself.