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but with a marked difference as to marriages. From 1649 to 
1654, the number of marriages recorded for the year was only 
from three to five, after which they ceased altogether until the 
Restoration in 1660. This is accounted for by the historical fact 
that Parliament had instituted secular marriages before a magistrate, 
and had finally abolished marriages in churches altogether ; the 
banns were stil! published in the church preparatory to the civil 
marriage, but no record of such publications appears to have been 
kept. Nine years after the date I have supposed John Hastie to 
have been ejected, there is this entry; “1659, June 6, Mr. John 
Hastie, late Vicar of Penrith, buried.” He would then be eighty- 
four years of age. 
THE RESTORATION AND Mr. SIMON WEBSTER, VICAR. 
The year of the Restoration, 1660, brought Roger Baldwin’s 
occupation of the living of Penrith to an end. During that year 
the re-establishment of the Episcopal Church proceeded apace. 
On the 13th September, an Act was passed and received the royal 
sanction, for restoring some ministers to their places, and under this 
Act John Hastie would have been restored had he been alive. As 
we have seen, he had then been dead fifteen months, consequently 
all the historians who have stated that John Hastie was restored, 
have been in error. After passing this Act, the King immediately 
published a proclamation re-establishing the old bishops who were 
still living, and appointing others to the vacant sees, amongst 
whom was Dr. Stern, to Carlisle; and on October 4th all the 
bishops assembled at Westminster Abbey. <vight’s History of 
England says :—“ For twenty years there had been no display of 
capes and surplices in the services of cathedrals, the young had 
never heard organs and choral services.” Pepys, the prince of 
diarists, was there, and in his quaint style tells how “the bishops 
assembled in Westminster Abbey, all in their habits; but Lord (he 
adds) at their going out how people did most of them look upon 
them as strange creatures, and few with any kind of love or respect.” 
On the 2oth of the same month, Mr. Simon Webster, the newly- 
appointed Episcopalian Vicar cf Penrith, was inducted, and recorded 
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