The Registers in the present volume have been transcribed by the Rev. J. Harvey Bloom, Rector of Whitchurch, near Stratford-upon-Avon, the Rev. W. Symonds, late Vicar of Frocester, but now of Great Sherston, in Wilts, and the Rev. R. H. M. Bouth, Rector of Elkstone, and to them the Editor desires to tender his best thanks. Thanks are also due to the parish clergy for leave to print the various registers. Their names are mentioned under the several parishes.
As before, this volume is issued without any index. Hereafter the Editor hopes that it will be feasible to issue a general index for the whole county, and thus avoid that great evil—an undue multiplicity of indexes. The reader must bear in mind that these transcripts are not legal "evidence," and that for certificates the clergy must be applied to.
