NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. No. 21.] Saturday, March 23. 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d. CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Early Statistics--Chart, Kent 329 "Bis dat qui citò dat" 330 Parallel Passages 330 Errors corrected 331 Direct and Indirect Etymology 331 Error in Pope's Homer's Odyssey 331 Proverbial Sayings and their Origins, &c. 332 QUERIES:-- "The Supper of the Lorde" 332 What is a Chapel, by Rev. A. Gatty 333 Who translated the "Turkish Spy," by E.F. Rimbault, L.L.D. 334 Philalethes Cestriensis--Stephens' Sermons 334 Minor Queries:--Smelling of the Lamp--Gourders of Rain--The Temple--Family of Steward, of Bristol--Paying through the Nose--Memoirs of an American Lady--Bernicia--John Bull 335 REPLIES:-- Letter attributed to Sir R. Walpole, by Lord Braybrooke 336 Portraits of Ulrich of Hutten 336 Change of Names 337 Queries answered, No. 6., by Bolton Corney 337 Beaver Hats 338 Replies to Minor Queries:--Anecdote of the Civil Wars--Mousetrap Dante--Cromwell's Estates--Genealogy of European Sovereigns-- Shipster--Kentish Ballad--Bess of Hardwick--Trophee--Emerald-- Ancient Motto: Barnacles--Tureen--Hudibrastic Couplet--Dr. Hugh Todd's MSS. 338 MISCELLANIES:-- Burnet--Translation from Vinny Bourne--Prince Madoc--Mistake in Gibbon--Jew's Harp--Havior, &c. 341 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 342 Notices to Correspondents 343 Advertisements 343 * * * * * EARLY STATISTICS.--CHART, KENT. Perhaps some one of your numerous readers will be good enough to inform me whether any _general statistical returns_, compiled from our early parish registers, have ever been published. An examination of the register of Chart next Sutton Valence, in Kent, which disclosed some very curious facts, has led me to make this inquiry. They seem to point to the inevitable conclusion that the disturbed state of England during the period of the Great Rebellion retarded the increase of population to an extent almost incredible--so as to suggest a doubt whether some special cause might not have operated in the parish in question which was not felt elsewhere. But, as I am quite unable to discover the existence of any such cause, I shall be glad to learn whether a similar result appears generally in other registers of the period above referred to.