348 Extracts from the Register in Christian Mai ford Church. 



" P they were denounced exconiunicatt again y e 8 th of Novemb : 1685 " 

 " July 10, 1725 



" Mem : That Jno. Bernard was absolv d from A sentence of This Excomunica- 

 tion by me 



"John Itchenee Kector." 



Also, in another place : — 



" Memorandum y 1 on y e 16 th of August 1687 I granted a certificat for Susanna 

 y e daughter of William and Phrizweth * Scott to be toucht for y e Kings Evill, 

 John Selman and William Scott being Churchwardens 



" Witness my hand 



"James Cooke Curatt." 



* This is not the only instance of the use of this strange name in this parish, for again in the 

 same register hook we meet with : — 

 " Mary the wife of Rich : Giles Bur. 10 Junij 1704 

 "Phriswith the wife of Wm Scot Bur. Sep 16 1704 " 



[Note by Canon Jones, This is most probably intended for " Frideswide." People in olden days 

 often took the names of great folk, e.g., Frideswide, daughter of Sir John Rungerford, of Down 

 Ampney (no great way offj, was first wife to Sir Henry Longe, of Wraxall (c. 1540—60).] 



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