Ealing has numbered among its vicars many divines who have been celebrated for their learning, their piety, and their zeal, and it is the merest justice to say that in the attributes that adorned his predecessors, in lofty and stately eloquence, in moving pathos, in chastened declamation, and in all the graces of cultured speech glowing in poetic imagery, Dr. Oliver, the present incumbent, has amply sustained the traditions of his benefice. The following is the list of the Vicars of Ealing:-- Roger de Thorlaston. 1372, April 8. Robert de Haytfield. Resigned. 1386, Nov. 12. William Semley. Ob. 1386, Feb. 11. John Dames. Ob. 1390, Oct. 25. David Bagator. Resig. 1398, Dec. 7. Nic. Bowne. ,, 1399, Oct. 18. Will. Wright. ,, 1400, Sep. 15. John Duffield. ,, 1407, Dec. 21. Baldwin Bagatour. 1437, Aug. 2. John Mallony. ,, 1443, July 18. Joh. Smith. ,, Ric. Burton. 1451, Nov. 26. Thos. Curteys, LL.B. 1478, May 28. Will. Tournour, A.M. Ob. 1503, Sep. 15. Thos. Everard. ,, 1513, Dec. 9. Sim. King. Resig. 1537, Jan. 19. Will. Havard. Ob. 1566, Feb. I. Oliver Stoning, S.T.B. ,, 1571, Nov. 26. Thos. Rycroft. ,, 1582, April 7. Thos. Knight, A.M. ,, 1591, Nov. 26. Ric. Smart. Resig. 1602, October. Joh. Bromfield, A.M. Ob. 1610, Jan. 29. Edwd. Abbot, A.M. ,, 1615, Jan, 19. Rec. Tavernor, A.M. Resig. 1638, Oct. 13. Rob. Cooper, LL.B. Ob. Cooper’s lines did not lie in pleasant places. He was ejected by the Puritans, and from this circumstance no less than from his position, we may be sure he had not disguised his Royalist sympathies. It is not known how the erstwhile vicar of Ealing spent his interregnum, whether he had means apart from his calling, or lived on the goodwill of friends, or flitted about as so many of the deprived clergy did from the house of one cavalier to another’s, or followed the fallen fortunes of the young king _de jure_ at the foreign courts that gave a grudged shelter to the royal exile. During the period of his suspension, marriages assumed the character of a civil contract, and the Registrar acted much as a Registrar acts in our days in civil marriages. Here is a copy of an entry of the publication of intent to marry, 1653. “A publication of an intent of marriage betweene John Holliday, the sonne of Jo. Holliday, waterman, and Sarah Walker, spinster, and daughter of Richard Walker, of Old Brentford, mealman, was published in Yling church three several days, viz., November 6, 13, &c., 1653. By me Joseph Walker Register.”