Excerpt from Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, Vol. 8 The very detailed account of Gloucestershire Brasses, with its numerous illustrations, which Mr. C. T. Davis contributed, also forms an exceedingly useful addition to the literature of the county. The volume of Gloucestershire Marriage Registers is notable from the fact that from it has grown a series of printed parish registers of which volumes have now appeared for seven counties, and is extending into other counties, thus helping to solve the difficult question of the preservation of our ancient parish registers. A word of explanation is due to the subscribers on account of the delay in issuing the parts for June and September. They had been printed and only awaited the completion of part of the Supplement (church Notes) when a very disastrous fire occurred at the printers, in which all the printed sheets and illustrations were burnt. Serious as this was the energy of Mr. Madge, well Seconded by Messrs. W. J. Southwood and Co., have set matters right, and we have the satisfaction of seeing, for the first time in the magazine's history, a volume completed, index and title page included, before the end of the year. My reluctance to retire from the post as editor is lessened by the assurance that in my successor this magazine will have an editor under whom it is certain to advance in every way. What changes in the magazine are proposed I may leave to Mr. Madge to explain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of impe