Some time ago while viewing the LDS film, I saw Written in the Parish Church Register at Meare: Memorandum - After prayers of Thanksgiving for the glorious victory obtained by the Allies over the French commanded by Buonaparte in person June 18, 1815 at Waterloo in Flanders on Sunday July 23, 1815 a collection was made for the benefit of the brave soldiers who fell in the Battle, which amounted to £3.11.7 and at Godney Chapel on Sunday July 30, 1815 £1.6.0. (This was totalled) £4.22.7 signed by W. Phelps, Curate. Memorandum - After a sermon which was preached X by the Command of his Majesty George the 4th and by the authority of the Lord Bishop of the Diocese in aid of a Fund to relieve the distressed manufacturing Poor of this Kingdom a collection was made amounting to the following ?vizt. Collection at Meare £5.10.7 3/4 Godney Chapel 1.4.6 ( totalling) £6.15.1 3/4? ) X on Sunday February 11th 1827 (signed) W. Phelps, Vicar of Meare Thought these were interesting. Edna - Ottawa Merry Christmas and a Healthy New Year

Hi Edna, I too have found the old Parish Church Registers to yield some very interesting information apart from the usual BMDs. One vicar in a Devon parish I came across had written a lengthy account  in 1726 entitled "Touching the Green" which set out the games which were allowed on the Green by the Church and things which were forbidden such as digging a pit for the sawyer plus an account of a game which had ended in a brawl when the ball had been thrown over a hedge . He also added his comments to accompany various deaths such as the accidental death by drowning of two of his young parishioners when he noted "the loss of two fine young men"  When an older member of his flock had come home from the village pub, fallen over his front doorstep and incurred a fatal injury  the vicar wrote, rather caustically I thought,that the doorstep had long been there. It made me wonder if he had cause to remonstrate with the man on previous occasions about his drunkenness!  Janet