Ah, thanks for the tip about using the % sign.

I don't know exactly when Howell POWELL was appointed at Lydney — it would seem to be at least from 1708.

It's likely that the entries for How[ard] should really be for How[ell]. A comparison with the Llangattock-juxta-Usk registers is not totally satisfactory because there is a gap after 1716 but by 1727 he usually signed the parish register as H: Powell.

Do you know if the images for the Lydney register (not the BTs) exist anywhere?