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agreeing with that in the register, was drawn up on 

 1 6 January, 1 68 3-4, doubtless just before its departure 

 for England. Of the two flagons which the church 

 has, one is of 1639, and the second apparently a 

 locally made copy of it, without hall-marks, and 

 inscribed ' Alder" John McMath his Gist (sic) to the 

 Chirrch of Tangier November the 10 1671.' These 

 are a pair, the second made to match the first, and 

 obviously formed part of the Tangier plate. The 

 other pieces, which, as seems possible, also belonged 

 to Tangier, are a cup, with no mark but that of 

 Anthony Nelme, a London goldsmith of the latter 

 part of the seventeenth century, and two standing 

 patens of 1677. The inference is that James II 

 handed over the set of Tangier plate to Portsmouth 

 church, and not, as it seems, to Godshouse chapel. 



The remaining pieces of plate are (i) a cup made 

 to match that already noted in 1764, and fitted with 

 a domed cover of 1803 ; the other cup has a like 

 cover of 1858; (2) nine silver plates, two of 1708 

 given 1725, two of 1804, two of 1809 given 1810, 

 two of 1812 given 1812, and one of 1900; (3) a 

 strainer of 1805 given 1806. There is'also one plated 

 plate, modern, and a silver verger's rod of 1 8 1 2 given 



1812. The earliest register runs from 1653 to 1662, 

 the second being a finely-bound book beginning with 

 the record of Charles IPs marriage, 22 May, 1662 

 now cut out and framed and containing baptisms 

 and marriages to 1694, and burials to 1678, with a 

 few of 1683-6. The third book goes from 1695 to 

 1710, the fourth 1710 to 1727, the fifth 1727 to 

 1748, and the sixth 1748 to 1769, with marriages" to 

 1758 only. The seventh, eighth, and ninth contain 

 marriages 1754 to 1758, 1758 to 1763, and 1763 

 to 1778. The tenth has baptisms and burials 

 1770 to 1787, the eleventh and twelfth marriages 

 1778 to 1785, and 1785 to 1795, the thirteenth 

 baptisms and burials 1787 to 1800, the fourteenth 

 and sixteenth marriages 1795 to 1806, and 1806 to 



1813, and the fifteenth baptisms and burials 1801 to 

 1812. 



In addition to these and to the Garrison Church 

 described above, numerous churches have been built 

 during the last two centuries to meet the needs of an 

 ever-increasing population. St. Mary's in Highbury 

 Street was built as a chapel of ease to Portsmouth 

 parish church in 1839,*" but the greater number 

 of the more modern churches are attached to St. 

 Mary, Portsea. Of these daughter churches St. 

 George's in St. George's Square, Portsea, was built in 

 1754 for the benefit of the town which was then 

 fast rising in the neighbourhood of the Dockyard, 464 

 but the district was not erected into a separate parish 

 till 1875, the church being still in the gift of the 

 vicar of Portsea. 666 In 1822 the church of St. Paul, 

 Southsea, was erected,* 67 and a part of Portsea parish 

 assigned to it to form a district chapelry in I835. 668 

 All Saints' in the Commercial Road was built in 

 1828, a part of Portsea parish being assigned to it in 

 I835. 669 Holy Trinity, Portsea, was built in 1841" 



on ground belonging to the Government, by which it 

 has recently been resumed for the purpose of 

 extending the Dockyard, while the district which had 

 been assigned to it has been divided between the 

 churches of St. George and St. John. In 1841 also 

 a church under the invocation of St. James was built 

 in the outlying district of Milton," 1 which was 

 formed into a district chapelry three years later.* 7 * 

 St. Mark's church, North End, was built in 1874, a 

 portion of Portsea parish being assigned to it in the 

 following year." 3 In 1 898 was erected the mission 

 church of St. Agatha, Conway Street, well known as 

 the scene of the labours of the late Father Dolling. 

 These are all in the gift of the vicar of Portsea. 

 The church of St. John in Prince George's Street, 

 Portsea, was built in 1788"* and is in the gift of five 

 trustees. A district was assigned to it in 1835 .*" St. 

 Jude's, Southsea, also in the gift of five trustees, was 

 built in 1 85 i, 676 and erected into a parish in l879. 677 

 In 1862 three new churches were built : St. Luke's, 

 Marylebone, of which the bishop of Winchester is 

 patron, was endowed as a separate parish church in 

 1865 ; 678 St. Bartholomew's, Southsea, originally built 

 as a chapel of ease to St. James, Milton, is also in 

 the gift of the bishop ; St. Simon's, Southsea, in the 

 gift of the Church Patronage Trust, was built as a 

 chapel of ease to St. Jude's. A part of the parish of 

 St. Paul's, Southsea, was assigned to the church of St. 

 Michael and All Angels in Park Road in 1882."" 

 In the following year a part of the parish of St. Jude 

 and the chapelry of St. Paul was assigned to St. 

 Peter's, Southsea. 680 The churches of St. Stephen, 

 Portsea, and St. Matthew, Southsea, of more recent 

 date, are in the gift of the bishop, as also is St. 

 Margaret's, Eastney, to which a district was assigned 

 from that of St. James, Milton. The Circus church 

 in Surrey Street is in the gift of the trustees of the 

 Rev. J. C. Martin. 



The Roman Catholic diocese of Portsmouth 

 includes Hampshire, Berkshire, and the Channel 

 Isles. It was formed in 1882, in which year was 

 opened the Cathedral of St. John in Edinburgh Road. 



There is a Roman Catholic church in Gladys 

 Avenue, and the church of St. Swithun in Saxe- 

 Weimar Road was opened in 1901 to replace a 

 smaller church, which has since been converted into 

 a school. 



There is a Presbyterian church in Commercial 

 Road, and another in St. Michael's Road, built in 

 1878. 



In the seventeenth century there were many 

 Nonconformists in Portsmouth. Among those fined 

 for preaching at conventicles was John Hickes, 

 well-known for his share in Monmouth's Rebellion. 681 

 Conventicles were frequently held at a house called 

 the Golden Ball, which belonged to a baker, Robert 

 Reynolds, 68 ' while the bitter animosity between 

 Dissenters and members of the Church of England 

 in the town is shown by the disputes between them 

 in I7IO. 66 * In 1865 there were more than sixteen 



M4 Sumncr, Conspectus of the Dioc. of 

 ffinton, 1854, p. 20. 



665 Register book of the church. 



566 Land. Gaz. 3 Dec. 1875, p. 6203. 



567 Conspectus of the Dioc. of ffinton, 

 1854, p. 20. 



5GS Lond. Gas.. 5 May, 1835, p. 881. 



' Ibid. 



570 Conspectus of the Dioc. of Winton, 20. 



71 Ibid. 



W Lond. Gax. 15 NOT. 1844, p. 4057. 



578 Ibid. 19 Mar. 1875, p. 1705. 



874 Conspectus of the Dioc. of IVinton^ 

 1854, p. 20. 



i75 Lond. Gaz. 5 May, 1835, p. 881. 



676 Conspectus of the Dioc. of Winton, 

 1 8 14, p. 20. 



s77 Lond. Gaz. 14 FeK 1879, p. 731. 



199 



678 Ibid. 4 Apr. 1865, p. 1869. 



679 Ibid. 21 July, 1882, p. 3414. 

 Ibid. 28 Aug. 1883, p. 4215. 



681 The warrant against him is exhibited 

 in the Borough Museum. 



582 Extracts from the Porttmoutb Rec. 

 179. 



688 Ibid. 207, et seq. 



