those answers I gather—

1.  That all the parishioners receive Communion at Easter.

2.  That the ministers are very careful about baptizing children at the font.

3.  There is no stranger preacher, only men of worth.

4.  That they intend to have a new Bible shortly.

5.  That two poor men teach the children—sometimes they have a few, sometimes none.  They are men of honest behaviour and sound of religion.

6.  That there was a woman—Alice Maybanke—who did not go to church, but frequented an ale house.

7.  That certain strangers were excommunicated for not attending Communion at Easter.

8.  Also one honest man, who had been tried by the Archdeacon, and not satisfying him, he, the honest man, was excommunicated.

Non-Communicants, none.  Communicants (both sexes), 400.

As the authorized version of the Bible was printed in 1611 it is probable the churchwardens wished to substitute that for the Bishops’ Bible which was published 1568.

And as James I. had stated that “he would make all men conform or harry them out of the land, or else worse,” perhaps the strangers and honest man were Baptists, Independents, or Puritans.

A happier time, however, came with William III.

The old church, which was taken down a few years since, was built in 1696, King William III. giving £300 and Princess Ann £100 towards the cost, the whole charge of which was £1,800.

In 1811 it was repaired and improved at a cost to the ratepayers of £3,000.

The first organ cost £500.

Some financial extracts from the old parish books may be interesting and amusing—

Kensington was not at all a noted place until William III. ennobled it with his court and residence.

Noel House, Kensington Goar, was built 1804.

Kensington House about William Third’s time.

Kensington Square in James Second’s reign, 1698.

Church Street probably took its name from the church at the end, or from the house called Church House, which was occupied by the “poore of the sufferance.”

Camden House was built by Sir Baptist Hickes, who possessed considerable property in the parish in 1612.

Phillamore Place was built 1787, and in 1811 David Wilkie, Esq., R.A., resided here.  His works the “Blind Fiddler,” “Rent Day,” “Village Holiday,” &c., will be remembered by all.

Sir Isaac Newton, who by the way was never married, lived on Camden Hill.  Here he died, March 20th, 1726–7, at the age of 84.

His nephew wrote of him.  “His whole life was one continued series of labour, patience, charity, generosity, temperance, piety, goodness and all other virtues without any mixture of vice whatever.”

The Royal Palace of Kensington is situated in the parish of St. Margaret’s, Westminster.

The original mansion was built by a person named Finch, one of whose descendants was promoted to the Peerage.  The house was then called Nottingham House.

The 2nd Earl of Nottingham sold it to King William III., 1691, for 18,000 guineas, and here, December 28, 1694, Queen Mary died of small pox.

William, who was much attached to this palace, divided his time between Hampton Court and Kensington.

In the month of February, 1702, he was thrown from his horse and brought back to Kensington, where he died March 8, 1702, in the 52nd year of his age.

Queen Ann and Prince George of Denmark were the next inhabitants of the palace.  The Queen died here August 1, 1714.

In the reign of George I. the palace was much altered and improved.  George II. died in this palace 25th October, 1760, aged 77.

The State Apartments were not occupied afterwards.

The lower apartments, in the south-east portion of the palace, were for some years occupied by the late Duke and Duchess of Kent, and on the 24th May, 1819, an infant princess was born here, who is now our beloved

QUEEN VICTORIA.

Kensington Gardens.—“Bewick” writes, 1705: “Whatever is deficient in the house is made up in the gardens.  There is a noble collection of foreign plants—every inch is well improved—the whole, with the house, not being above 26 acres.  Her Majesty (Queen Ann) has been pleased to add near 30 acres more toward the north.  Upon this spot nearly 100 men work daily.”

In George Second’s reign Queen Caroline threw a string