Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Old English Social Life as Told by the Parish Registers
Amongst some of the further disasters that have befallen these ill-used records, we may allude to their being occasionally sold as waste - paper, their destruction by fire at the parson's residence, and their complete loss through being stolen.
In a curious work by Francis Sadler (1738, p. Entitled 'exactions of Parish Fees dis covered, ' it is recorded how one Philips, late clerk of Lambeth, ran away with the register-book, whereby the parish became great sufferers, for no person born in the parish could have a transcript of the register to prove himself heir to an estate.
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