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But parish officers, it seems, were not always more honest with

regard to their own than they had been with regard to other

parishes, and sometimes connived at such intrusions, receiving

the notice, and taking no proper steps in consequence of it. As

every person in a parish, therefore, was supposed to have an

interest to prevent as much as possible their being burdened by

such intruders, it was further enacted by the 3rd of William III.

that the forty days residence should be accounted only from the

publication of such notice in writing on Sunday in the church,

immediately after divine service.