_Parish Registers Tax_.--In the Parish Register of Wigston Magna,
Leicestershire, are the following entries against several dates in the
Baptisms and Burials:--

1784. Septr. 5th (Burials), "P'd Tax to y's Day."
---- Novr. 28th (Baptisms), "p'd Tax."
1785. Octr. 14th (Baptisms), "p'd Tax to this Day."
1786. Septr. 12th (Christenings), "p'd tax to this Day."
1786. Septr. 1st (Burials), "p'd tax to this Day."
1787. July 31st (Baptisms), "P'd Tax to this Day."
---- Septr. 27th (Burials), "P'd Tax to this Day."

I should be glad to be informed what tax is here referred to. These are all
the entries of the kind.

ARUN.

_Charade_.--Can any of your readers help me to a solution of the following
poetical charade, which I believe appeared in the _Times_ newspaper a few
years back with this heading to it:--

"The following piece of mysticism has been sent to us as
original, with a request for a solution. The authorship is among
the secrets of literature: it is said to have been by Fox,
Sheridan, Gregory, Psalmenazar, Lord Byron, and the Wandering
Jew. We leave the question to our erudite readers."

"I sit on a rock
While I'm raising the wind,