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cxviii inhabitants in any parish, district, or place in should certify in writing to the Bishop that they were desirous of having Divine Service performed and the Sacraments administered in English, and undertook to provide a building to be used as a chapel for the same and a spiritual person to officiate therein, then the Bishop was to be entitled to license such chapels and ministers when nominated by the incumbent of the parish. If the incumbent refused or failed to nominate the minister, the Bishop could do so. The licensed building was not to be a parochial chapel, except with the consent of the incumbent, whose rights as to fees and emoluments were not to be affected by the passing of this Act.

A.D. 1837.—By section 23 of 7 4 and 1, c. 22 (1837), regulating the registration of marriages, it is provided that in all places where the  tongue is commonly spoken the solemn declaration to be used in the celebration of marriages before the Registrars is to be truly translated into the  tongue and furnished to every Registrar throughout , and that it is lawful to use that translation in all places where the  tongue is commonly spoken.

A.D. 1844.—An Act (7-8, c. 91) to "consolidate and amend the laws relating to Turnpike Trusts in " became law in 1844. Its title does not indicate the fact that stormy events led to its enactment. In 1789, the Association for the improvement of roads had been formed at Swansea, its principal object being to obtain a complete amendment of the highway road between the New Passage over the Severn at Newnham and Hubberston in Pembrokeshire, with an improvement of the road from Chepstow to Gloucester, in order to provide good communication between  and London. During the reign of the Third a number of private