While the clergyman was publishing the banns in the church at Seafovd, in the month of November, 1816, he was interrupted by one of the congregation, who called out loudly " I forbid the wedding. " He was requested to walk into vestry and explain his reasons for so doing. Was he a relation ? " No, " replied, he " I'm the bridegroom himself; but having heard that Ciss has a tongue that, .after marriage, will run faster than the clack of her master's mill, I am l-esolved to be off; so your reverence may marry her yourself if you pleaie." I
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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 123, 1 June 1870, Page 2
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