d by his clergy,
repeating alternately the 24th Psalm. Every seat was immediately filled,
and soon no spot was left unoccupied. Many could not gain admission, and
were seen clinging to the bars of the windows on the outside. A large
company of professional and amateur singers attended, so that the whole
musical part of the service was well executed. His Lordship delivered an
impressive discourse from the 8th, 9th, and 10th verses of the 132nd
Psalm. The congregation was very attentive, and, after contributing at
the door nearly 30 pounds towards the completion of the work, dispersed,
fully 1,000 persons being observed to leave the church. The perpetual
advowson of the living was assigned to the Bishop of the diocese, and
endowed with 75 pounds 6s. 6d. per annum, together with the remainder of
the five acres of land granted by the Crown as glebe, on which a
picturesque parsonage, and also commodious schools for a population
supposed to number 1,500, were erected. By the Act of 1842 the income of
the incumbency was augmented to 150 pounds a year, and the presentation
confirmed to the Bishop of the diocese, with an ecclesiastical district
annexed to it of 7,741 acres, with 3,681 inhabitants. This population
has since increased to 6,500, to meet which growth pleasing and
substantial schools have been built, at a total outlay of 750 pounds, on
the Viney Hill and in the Blakeney Valley, the former opened in 1850, and
the latter in 1851. Divine service is held in each of them under
episcopal licence. The three schools are attended by 200 children daily.
The Sunday congregations comprise 150 people in the morning, and 400 in
the afternoon. About fifty come to the Lord's Table. The yearly average
of christenings is forty-six, of weddings twenty-six, and of funerals
forty-five. The following is a list of

_Incumbents_.--Henry Poole; J. J. Ebsworth, M.A.

_Curates_.--David Jones, M.A., Oxon.; --- Dixon, B.A., Oxon.; ---
Revel, M.A., Camb.; --- Stewart, M.A., Camb.; --- Mountfort, M.A.,
Oxon.; --- Malpas, M.A.; --- Cardew, B.A.; --- Ponton, B.A.

[Picture: St. John's Church and Schools, Cinderford]

The next effort made to meet the spiritual wants of the increasing
population of the Forest was commenced by Edward Protheroe, Esq., M.P.,
who erected and opened, July 1, 1840, "on Cinderford Tump, where the old
holly grew," large and substantial school-buildings, for the benefit of
the familie