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Four or five men in this register of deaths are described as Tobacco rowlers, almost the only instances where trade or station is stated. 1710. Thos. Howell\ were baptised in same water Rees Owen J and buried January 29, aged 80 each. Laugharne is in Laugharneshire, which is only Welsh to a limited degree. A glance into its registers in this volume is illuminating in that respect. I list some of the less usual names, mainly for the sake of genealogists there is no likelier place for missing links but the list is typical, not exhaustive. Athoe, Bannister, Batho, Bayly, Barrett, Bedford, Bronckier, Brugy, Callan, Cheyny, Christopher, Chutterbug, Collemoore, Cornwallis, Crocker, Crow, Dyer, Drewett, Fawlett, Fendall, Fiennes, Falke, Furnivall, Gammon, Gilbert, Glew, Goch, Lloyd, Gurnett, Hicks, Hybbard, Hensleigh, Henlin, Hodding, Horsefoot, Hotsmean, Horten, Huddlestone, Ives, Jarman, Kenrick, Killer, Knithall, Lallys, Lester, Letherby, Lutterel, Mansel, Mayo, Merry, Mends, Nash, Nethel, Polner, Orchard, Parfit, Pavy, Perrott, Pickering, Rawlings, Rhewthall, Rice, Rixon, Rood, Russel, Rutter, Rawling, Sambrook, Sambroth, Shewen, Skeel, Sothern, Stafford, Stukely, Tooth, Townshend, Twyning, Tankard, Vallingham, Voyle, Whelling, Whynell, Wickynne, Warrington, Underhill, Question, Pylson, Youngster. Christian names that attract attention are chiefly feminine-Sage, Charity, Prudence, Asenath, Abra, Damazin (in various spellings), Marillia, Maretta, Damaris, Gilian, Llykie, Angharad. In 1656 h buried Thomas David, alias Tom-a-God's name. Jews' Way, which leads off the Mapsland­-Cross Towy lane-a long, narrow field, no way -now-is Dewi's Way. Ants hill, a modern house on a somewhat conical hillock over- looking the approach to the town, is said to have been so called from its resemblance to African ant heaps by the builder, who had African experiences. But the Church rate books c. 1820 have fields there or thereabouts, which are called St. Anne's Hill." The Terrier of 1681, copied into the volume, contains a few items of interest. "For a Wade, 1/- for a Thread, 1/- for foot fishing, 4d." Wade-a seine worked by two men on the shore thread-a back or stake net, a fixed engine foot fishing-walking in shallow water, treading on, or spearing flounders. For every calf killed, the skin or 4d." There were seven mills in Laugharne and its chapelries of Marros and Kiffig, which paid custom ranging from 2/6 to 4d. In the 'forties Mr. Kemp, in the Gentleman's Magazine," remarks that Laugharne has a window with a figure of St. George and a head of Edward III. In the 'sixties this was removed. The spandrils alone were left and badly patched. The head referred to was inserted there. Fragments of glass, forgotten for many years, recently came into my hands. I imagine that fragments of two windows