"We beg to hand you a Copy of Notice for a Meeting of St.
Thomas's Congregation, to be holden (by your permission), at
the Vestry room, on Monday Morning next."
Yours truly,
JORDAN & PRICE.
_Dudley, August 22nd, 1857._
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The Vicarage, Dudley, 22nd August, 1857.
[35]"The Vicar has to acknowledge the receipt of a note signed
by Messrs. Jordan & Price wherein he is requested to sanction
a Meeting "Relating to the Appointment of Organist," in his
Church Vestry-room, on Monday, at 10 o'clock a.m."
"The above question having been definitely settled by the
Churchwardens and himself, he, the Vicar declines the use of
his Vestry room for such an already decided purpose."
September 3rd, 1857. Married, at St. Edmund's Church, by her father,
Miss Emily Mason Davies, eldest daughter of the Rev. John Davies,
M.A., the Vicar, to Mr. Charles Cochrane, Ironmaster, of Middlesboro',
Yorkshire.
September 11th, 1857. Miss Emma Saunders, a very popular Dudley
Vocalist, this day sailed for Adelaide, South Australia, to be married
on her arrival.
A "Practical Joke," was at the time played upon our worthy Mayor, Mr.
John Beddard, which caused the following rejoinder from his Worship.