with reverence and put away idle thoughts and light behaviour. The Psalm, "I was glad when they said unto me, we will go into the house of the Lord." was sung, and the congregation then rose and remained standing while the ringers gave a peal lasting five minutes. Then this hymn was sung—

"Now at length our bells are mounted

To their holy place on high,

Ever to fulful their mission,
Midway 'twixt the earth and sky.
"As the birds sing early matins
To the God of Nature's praise;
These their nobler daily music

To the God of grace shall raise.
"And when evening shadows soften
Chancel cross and tower and aisle ;
They shall blend their vesper summons
With the day's departing smile.
"Christian men shall hear at distance,
In their toil or in their rest,
Joying that in one communion

Öf one Church they, too, are blest.
"They that on the sick bed languish,
Full of weariness and woe,
Shall remember that for them, too,
Holy Church is gathering so.

"Year by year the steeple music

O'er the tended graves shall pour;
Where the dust of saints is garnered
Till the Master comes once more-

"Till the day of sheaves-ingathering;
Till the harvest of the earth;
Till the saints rise in their order,
Glorious in their second birth;

"Till Jerusalem, beholding

That his glory in the east

Shall, at the Archangel trumpet,

Enter in to keep the feast.

"Christ to Thee, the world's salvation,

Father, Spirit, unto Thee,

Low we bend in adoration,

Ever blessed One in Three."

The Rev. C. E. Dighton, the vicar, preached from the Divine command to Moses, "Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them; that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly" [Numbers x., 2.]

At the evening service the special office for the day was repeated, and the vicar preached a suitable sermon from the text, "Will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain Him, how much less this house that I have builded."

Frocester Marriage Registers (concluded).

[Vol. V. p. 1]

1755. May 18, Joseph Young, of Leonard Stanley, and Anne

Clifford.

1756. Jan. 14, William Wilkins and Sarah Heath. Feb. 9, George Nurse and Elizabeth Isacks.

1757. April 10, Richard Fryer and Mary Pegler,

April 19, James Fletcher and Elizabeth Phillips.

[p. 3]

May 5, Richard Cockle, of Stonehouse, clothier, and
Anne Daw.

June 9, Thomas Chandler, of Boxwell, and Elizabeth Daw.
June 12, Samuel Marlin and Edith French.

June 14, John Powell and Sarah Matthews.

[p. 4]

1758. April 6, Job Aldridge and Sarah Bailey, of Coaley. April 17, Samuel Watkins, of Randwick, and Elizabeth Willis.

May 16, Richard Clark and Mary Evenis.

[p. 5]

June 25, Walter Edmunds and Elizabeth Wetmore [in the
chapel].

Oct. 12, John Wetmore and Martha Fletcher, widow.
Feb. 22, Richard Ronals, yeoman, and Alice Heaven.
Feb. 27, John Woodman and Sarah Stephens.

[p. 6]

April 20, John Soul, of Easington, and Mary Beard.
July 21, Robert Parsloe and Mary Bennet, of Leonard
Stanley.

Nov. 19, Jacob Pick and Martha Hill.

1760. April 10, John Newman, of Slimbridge, and Mary Wetmore.

[p. 7]

June 1, George Hullbrow, of Slimbridge, and Sarah
Orchard.

June 5, Theophilus Fords, of Coaley, and Sarah French. 1761. Feb. 3, Richard Daniels, of Nymphsfield, and Elizabeth

Hoskins.

April 2, John Organ and Elizabeth Marlin.

[p. 8]

April 28, John Morgan, of Easington, and Mary Heaven.

KK

May 10, John Hatherell, of Leighterton, and Hannah
Gough.

May 14, William Trotman, farmer, and Elizabeth Edwards.
[p. 9]

Oct. 17, William Bird, of Eastington, pargetter, and
Christian Partridge.

1762. May 1, Samuel Gainey, of Nymphsfield, and Sarah Willis. May 27, William Andrews, of Frampton-on-Severn, and Anne Ronals.

1763. Jan. 17, Thomas Buckingham, of Frampton-on-Severn, farmer, and Sarah Pegler.

Feb. 16, William Bridges, of Woodchester, and Sarah
Bennett.

[p. 12]

Nov. 21, Samuel Wilkins, carpenter, and Mary Clark.

1764. May 3, George Daw, yeoman, and Anne Baron. June 5, Joseph French, sailor, and Elizabeth Hurcombe. July 24, Joseph Gardner, of Newent, and Sarah Baron. [p. 13]

1765. Jan. 27, John Heming, of Leonard Stanley, and Jane

Woodman.

July 1, William Harris and Jane Collins.

July 25, William Amoss and Anne Wetmore.

Oct. 17, John Moss, of Minchin Hampton, baker, and
Mary Partridge.

[p. 14]

1766. April 17, Driver Wathen, of King's Stanley, baker, and Mildred Hayward.

1767. July 12, John Mynd, gent., and Catherine Bate.

1768. Jan. 5, Anthony Ely, of King's Stanley, yeoman, and Mary Gingel.

Jan. 16, Robert Drew, of Minchinhampton, banker, and
Mary Heaven.

[p. 15]

Dec. 18, John Parsloe, schoolmaster, and Anne Fryer. 1769. Mar. 8, James Weston, yeoman, and Theresa Deem.

May 15, George Adams and Mary Fletcher.

[p. 16]

1770. April 9, Richard Fryer, of Arlingham, and Mary Drew.

May 12, Richard Stephens and Mary Brown.

1771. June 2, Benjamin Burford, of Nymphsfield, and Mary Wetmore.

[p. 17]

1772. Jan. 17, Stephen Cross and Sarah Orcott.

Aug. 17, William Woodman and Deborah Browning.
Sept. 1, Daniel Bennet, of Leonard Stanley, and Sarah
Knight.

[p. 18]

Sept. 20, William Hopkins and Anne Fletcher.

Edmund Cox, of Nymphsfield, and Margery Baron. Oct. 27, John Painter, of N. Cerney, and Elizabeth Heaven. 1773. Feb. 8, William Poulton and Rachel Clutterbuck.

[p. 19]

Feb. 11, Stephen Lightfoot, of Weston, Herefords., and
Elizabeth Baron.

May 11, John Andrews, of Berkeley, and Mary Pegler.
May 17, William Wetmore and Sarah Heaven.

Lp. 20]

Aug. 28, Richard Burford, of Nymphsfield, and Hannah
Wetmore.

1774. May 17, Thomas Jakeway, of Leonard Stanley, and
Elizabeth Kent.

1775. Jan. 15, Samuel Silvee and Hannah Bushel.

April 24, Samuel Bendall and Anne Nurse.
[p. 21]

Aug. 3, Job Aldridge and Jane Harris,

1776. Aug. 10, John Dobbins and Susanna Bridges.

Sept. 25, Noah Bendall, of Cam, and Elizabeth Partridge, 1777. April 2, Thomas Wetmore and Temperance Bushell.

1777.

[p. 22]

July 5, Charles Fennel, of Eastington, and Anna Maria
Hayward.

Oct. 9, Daniel Chandler, of Randwick, and Elizabeth Wildy,
Oct. 16, William Clutterbuck and Hannah Clark.

Morris Watts, of King's Stanley, and Mary Somers,
[p. 23]

Dec. 11, Thomas Evans and Christian Fletcher. 1778. April 8, William Fletcher and Elizabeth Bivan,

3

1778 April 14, Daniel Neale, of Leonard Stanley, and Hannah

Withers.

May 6, Thomas Knight and Mary Cowley.

[p. 24]

July 13, Samuel Fords, of Cam, and Ann Beard.

1779. June 24, James Clutterbuck, of Leonard Stanley, gent.,

and Ann Garlick.

Sept. 12, Joseph Coulick and Susanna Heaven.

1780. April 25, John Joyner and Sarah Hill.

June 6, Samuel Barnes and Diana Long.

[p. 26]

June 20, William Edmunds, of King's Stanley, and Mary
Wetmore.

Sept. 14, Samuel French, of Leonard Stanley, and Hester
Parsloe.

1781. May 16, Daniel Long, of Coaley, and Ann Leonard.
Dec. 22, Thomas Pegler and Sarah Bond.

Dec. 28, Richd Wilkins and Elizabeth Adams.

1782. Jan. 22, James Cook and Unity Edinton.

Oct. 28, William Burton, of Slimbridge, and Mary
Woodman.

1783. May 25, William Webb and Ann Clark,

July 7, Charles Summers, of Hardwicke, and Mary Stephens. 1784. Aug. 15, Thomas Edmunds and Hester Adams.

Nov. 15, Nathaniel Wilkins und Mary Pardo.

1785. Feb. 8, Samuel Heaven, yeoman, and Sarah Trotman.

April 17, Richard Fryer and Sarah Nurse.
July 3, James Barrinton and Hannah Rudge.

Thomas Bessell and Anne Rudge.

July 16, William Gwinnel and Margaret Parsloe.

1786. Jan. 13 [by license] William Stibbs, of Minchinhampton,

April 23, Richard Webb, of Newington Bagpath, and
Mary Aldridge.