Eling 1537 Christchurch 1586 Milford 1594 Boldre 1596 Ellingham 1596 Bramshaw (loose leaves) 1598 Fordingbridge 1642 Beaulieu 1654 Ibbesley 1654 Milton 1654 Lymington 1662 Dibden 1665 Fawley 1673 Breamore 1675 Sopley 1678 Minestead 1682 Ringwood 1692 [260]See chapter v., p. 51, _foot-note_. [261]Part of the Act is quoted in Burn’s _History of Parish Registers_, second edition, pp. 26 and 27, and where, at pp. 159, 160, 161, are given several examples of this kind of marriage—amongst them, that of Oliver Cromwell’s daughter Frances, in 1657, from the Register of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. [262]Burn, in his _History of Parish Registers_, second edition, pp. 171, 172, 173, gives several similar instances of such licences. These most valuable books at Ellingham are, notwithstanding the incumbent’s care, in a shocking state of preservation. I trust some transcript of them may be made before they quite fall to pieces. Ellingham also possesses another book containing the names of the owners of the different pews in the church in 1672, invaluable to any local historian. In the beginning of this book are inserted a number of law-forms of agreements, wills, and indentures, probably for the use of the clergyman, who was, perhaps, consulted by his parishioners in worldly as also spiritual matters. In the Register there is, unfortunately, no mention of the death of Alice Lisle, as the burials are torn out from 1664 to 1695. [263]See _Notes and Queries_. First Series, vol. ii., pp. 344, 345. In the Churchwardens’ Books of Fordingbridge we find—“1609. For smoke-mony, for makynge and deliveringe of the bills xvj^d,” which would confirm the first explanation given in the text. [264]30 Car. II., cap. iii. See _Journals of the House of Commons_, vol. viii., p. 650; ix., p. 440. In _Burn’s History of Parish Registers_, second edition, p. 117, may be found a much more complicated affidavit than those given in the text. [265]See chap. v., pp. 57, 58. It is just possible that by his “τὰς πλησίον νήσους,” Diodorus may mean the Shingle Islands, which we have described in chapter xiv. p. 151, and whose sudden appearance and disappearance would lead to the most extravagant reports. [266]“On the Newer Deposits of the Sussex Coast:” _Geological Journal_, vol. xiii. pp. 64, 65.