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Notes and Queries SOUTH WESTERN CATHOLIC HISTORY South Western Catholic History has been published by Downside Abbey since 1982 under the editorship of Dom Aidan Bellenger. In 1991, it was decided to expand the area covered by the journal (previously restricted to, the southern and western counties of England) to include Wales. This move has been nade because the old Roman Catholic Western District which existed before the Rest- oration of the Hierarchy included for most of its history the greater part of Wales. In the next few numbers it is intended to publish articles on the Bristol Channel as a means of communicat- ion between the parts of the District and on Bishop Gregory Sharrock's hitherto unpublished diary for the late eighteenth century which contains some interesting details on the history of Catholicism in Wales. South Western Catholic History is published annually (in the summer) and subscriptions (for £ 3.00) can be sent to the Editor, South Western Catholic History, Downside Abbey, Bath BA3 4RH. THE NUMBER OF CLERGY IN WALES A correspondent writes as follows: "I have been trying to find certain simple statistics but with no success. What I wanted to know was (1) the number of clergymen of all kinds serving the Welsh dioceses in 1800, and (2) the corresponding figures for 1851 As far as the editors are aware, no such statistics exist. A search through John Williams' Digest of Welsh Historical Statistics (Cardiff, the Welsh Office, 2 volumes, 1985), The Calendar of the 1851 religious census relating to Wales (University of Wales Press, 2 volumes 1976, 1981), the reports of the Queen Anne's Bounty, the Ecclesiastical Commission, and the Royal Commission of the Church of England in Wales (1910-11) proved fruitless. The best we could offer were the figures presented by the Report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of 1835, entitled Liber Ecclesiasticus. This indicated as follows: