Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter viii. the registees. N unusual feature of this Church Register is that the entries, instead of being arranged in the ordinary manner under the separate heads of Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, have been inserted promiscuously in the order of time. A Memorandum on the first page states that it is a Transcript of entries made during the preceding 40 years, the whole being copied out by George Case, the then Vicar, in 1598. "Liber Registralis Ecclesias de Boxlye, continens nomina eorum qui, a primo beatas memorias Elizabethas Begimims anno, vel baptismo initiati, vel matrimonio copulati et conjuncti, vel sepulturte traditi fuere in dicta parochia. "Emptus fuit liber iste xi. mo. die Octobris anno Incarnationis Dominicas 1598, pretio xs. ex sumptibus dictaa parochias, Incumbente turn ibidem Georgio Case, Artium Magistro, Oxoniensi, ceconomicis1 illius anni Johanne Payne et Eichardo Goldsmith, anno regni Eeginas Elizabethas xl. 1 The Churchwardens were so called as having charge of the Parish Funds, Vivat Elyzabetha Regina Anglias, Francias, et Hybernias Regina, Fidei Defensatrix, Virgo Virtute Victoriosa" The entries for the first two years are here given in extenso, to show the unusual system above referred to. Anno Domini 1558. Eegni Reginas Elizabethee 1. B. Mildreda, filia Johannis Scheeffe, baptizata xvii Nov. S. Thomas Moningham, sepultus xxviii Nov. B. Helena, filia Thomas Herst, baptizata viii Dec. S. Laurentius, famulus Johannis Dunkyn, sepultus x Dec. B. Richardus, filius Roberti Bayforde, baptizatus xii Dec. S. Agnes, uxor Roberti Waren, sepulta xxvi Dec. S. Ambrosius, filius Hugonis Wilks, sepultus xxiii Dec. S. Gregorius, filius dicti Hugonis Wilks, sepultus xxvii Dec. S. Agnes, filia Willielmi Fletcher, sepulta xx...
