"_Dr. Gainham._ The 9th of September, 1733, I married a couple at the Rainbow Coffee House, the corner of Fleet Ditch, and entered the marriage in my register, as fair a register as any Church in England can produce. I showed it last night to the foreman of the jury, and my Lord Mayor's Clerk, at the London Punch House. "_Counsel._ Are you not ashamed to come and own a clandestine marriage in the face of a Court of Justice? "_Dr. Gainham_ (bowing). _Video meliora, deteriora sequor._ "_Counsel._ You are on your oath, I ask you whether you never enter marriages in that book, when there is no marriage at all? "_Dr. Gainham._ I never did in my life. I page my book so, that it cannot be altered." The other case is from the trial of Edmund Dangerfield in 1736. "_Dr. Gainham._ I don't know the prisoner. I did marry a man and woman of these names. Here, this is a true register: _Edwd Dangerfield of St. Mary Newington Butts, Batchelor, to Arabella Fast_. When I marry at any house, I always set it down, for I carry one of the books in my pocket, and when I go home I put it in my great book. "_Court._ Do you never make any alteration? "_Gainham._ Never, my Lord. These two were married at Mrs. Ball's, at the Hand and Pen, by the Fleet Prison, and my name is to her book. "_Counsel._ 'Tis strange you should not remember the prisoner. "_Gainham._ Can I remember persons? I have married 2000 since that time." We have heard of Alley, who married from 1681 to 1707; of Elborrow, 1698 to 1702; and of Mottram, who flourished between 1709 and 1725. Of Daniel Wigmore, the Dean of the previous poem, we know little except that he married between 1723 and 1754. The _Daily Post_ of May 26, 1738, says of him, "Yesterday Daniel Wigmore, one of the parsons noted for marrying people within the Rules of the Fleet, was convicted before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, of selling spirituous liquors contrary to law." The third dignitary, Edward Ashwell, the Archdeacon, was notorious, and some of his misdeeds are recounted in a letter from Wm. Hodgson, to his brother, a Clergyman. (Lansdowne MSS., 841, fol. 123). _June_ 21, 1725.