emain are in a bad state of
preservation. Nos. I. and II. are now altogether lost; they were
apparently in existence in 1876, when the Rev. W. G. C. Nottley made a
list of the Registers, and placed it in the box in which the Registers
were kept. Sometime between 1876 and 1896 these Registers disappeared,
together with Mr. Nottley's list.

The Marriage Register 1755-1812 (No. IV. above) was formerly bound in
boards covered with parchment, but one board has disappeared, leaving the
parchment torn and crumpled, with a large hole in the centre, and the
whole book is in a dilapidated condition. The marriage entries are on
the first twelve leaves which are loose and damaged. It is a folio book,
containing the usual printed forms.

The Baptisms and Burials, 1794-1812 (No. III. above) simply consists of
three loose sheets of parchment, folded, making twelve pages, without any
cover. The writing in places is nearly obliterated, and difficult to
decipher.

The transcripts at Hereford, which commence in 1660, are fairly complete,
and it would be very desirable that these should be copied and printed,
so as to make this Register more perfect.

The Registers were copied by Miss Hulton-Harrop (now Mrs. Rowan
Robinson), and were collated in 1903 by the late Rev. F. W. Kittermaster,
and have been seen through the press by the Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher. They
are now printed, by permission of the Rev. T. R. Glenn, the present
Incumbent, at the cost of W. E. M. Hulton-Harrop, Esq., of Gatten Lodge
and Lythwood Hall, who has generously presented these Registers to the
Society.

W. G. D. FLETCHER.

OXON VICARAGE,
SHREWSBURY,
MAY, 1909.

VOLUME I.

MARRIAGES, 1755-1813.

[_The parties are of Ratlinghope_, _and the Marriages by banns_, _except
where otherwise stated_.]
1755, Mar. 6 Edward Lewis & Elizabeth Homes
[_signs_ Home], wid.
,, Oct. 28 Bromley Coles & Elizabeth Price.
1756, Oct. 17 Edward Clark & Mary Bowen, of
Churton.
,, Oct. 31 John Thomas & Mary Wild, of Ford,
_lic._
1757, Feb. 11 Thomas Andrews & Mary Harries, _lic._
1758, Oct. 13 William Pugh, of Worthen, & Elizabeth
Hay