note * page 227 Transcripts included and twins counted two.

note * page 228 This term includes servants in farm kitchens, never employed at out-work, and also those whose chief work is in-door, hut who are sometimes employed at out-work in time of turnip-hoeing and harvest.

note † 228 There are no bothies in the parish. The male farm servants get their food in the farm kitchen and sleep in an outhouse. It is believed that they wander about a good deal at night, being under little supervision.

note * page 229 The body of Humanity does not appear to have been much influenced by Dr Dewar.

note * page 230 The same intelligent writer has lately contributed a series of valuable papers on “Banffshire Illegitimacy” to the columns of the Banffshire Journal.

note * page 231 During the decennial period in question, the parish of Penninghame, in Wigtownshire, with a population, in 1381, of 3777 (1755 males and 2022 females), had 1083 births, of which 146 were illegitimate, thus presenting a very favourable contrast to Marnoch. These figures, however, do not embrace transcripts, which would probably bring up the illegitimate bh-thsin Penninghame to about 166, against 277 in Marnoch, with 557 fewer inhabitants, and a larger proportion of houses to the population. (Penninghame—610 houses to 822 families. Marnoch—678 houses to 712 families.)

note * page 234 See Fraser's Law of Parent and Child, p. 139.