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. XXV. Extracts from the Parifh Regifler 0/"S.Bennet J s, St. Paul's Wharf, London. Communicated by the Rev. Mark Noble, F. A. S. In a Letter to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary. Read May 3, 1798. i; oj i]if rrrr_> ' DEAR SIR, YOU will do me a great favour in laying the underwritten be- fore the Society of Antiquaries ; it is the refult of what I faw remarkable in the regifter books of the parifh of St. Benedict, ufually called St. Bennet's, St. Paul's Wharf, London. The regifters do not commence until after the beginning of the feventeenth cen- tury. From the Baptifms is this entry. " The lord Dormer, vifcount Aikot, eldeft fon to the right ho- nourable the earl of Carnarvon, was born on Fryday Ocl:. 35, and chriftened on Tuefday November 26, 1633." Robert Dormer, baron Dormer of Winge, and baronet, was created by king Charles I. vifcount Afcot, and earl of Caernarvon, Auguft Zy. 1638. This nobleman, alike diftinguifhed for his virtue,, wifdom, and valour, fell after the battle of Newberry, Sept. 2O>. 1643, in his return from purfuing a party of the parliamentary forces, being killed by a trooper, who, knowing hb lordfhip, raa