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especially 60-61. An instructive assessment of recent trends in demographic approaches to parish registers is provided by D. E. C. Eversley, 'Exploitation of Anglican Parish Registers by Aggregative Analysis', in WRIGLEY, E. A. (ed.), An Introduction to English Historical Demography, London, 1966. We must also note the recent groundswell of parish register publication efforts. Yet what remains perhaps the most balanced and systematic descriptive survey of the substrate with which Wrigley and his co-workers concern themselves is that of J. C. Cox, The Parish Registers of England, London, 1910. Medical historians will find of special interest ch. 9, 'The plague and other sickness', pp. 142-83; here cf. esp. pp. 179-83 on the Royal Touch for scrofula. 4. WMAK;mE, JoHN (ed.), Letters written by eminent persons in the seventeenth and eighteenth century: to which are added, Hearne's journeys to Reading, and to Waddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis, esq., and lives of eminent men, by John Aubrey, esq., London, 1813. This was the first published version of Aubrey's BriefLives. 5. Ibid., pp. 250-51. 6. HUSSEY, EDWARD, 'On the cure of scrofulous diseases attributed to the royal touch', ArchaeoL J., 1853, 10, 187-211; 189. Emphasis added. 7. The register booke for Stanton St. Johns (Robert Pepper Register); unpaginated. 8. For an earlier treatment, with respect to tuberculosis during the period here under discussion, of changes in the host-parasite relationship see John Brownlee, 'An investigation into the epidemiology of phthisis in Great Britain and Ireland', Medical Research Committee Special Reports, no. 18, 1917; cf. especially pp. 38-45. Brownlee's reliance on the London Bills of Mortality renders his approach complementary to the one we are proposing: in the former case one is looking at the proportionate mortality ascribable to tuberculosis in a sizeable population. The latter permits analysis of changes in smaller cohorts from smaller catchment areas; indeed, the most finely-grained resolution is possible, that of individual life-cycles changing over times as a consequence of shifts in the host-parasite relationship. For a more recent treatment similar to that of Brownlee, but of multiple entities in an earlier period, see T. R. Forbes, Chronick from Aldgate: Life and Death in Shakespeare's London New Haven, 1971, pp.100-10. Cf. Cox, loc. cit. (n. 3), for exanples of other parishes which may in future fumish data of this sort.