Reference
P105/1/1
Title
General register of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1576-1639, 1641-1719
Date free text
1576-1719
Production date
From: 1576 To: 1719
Scope and Content
Also includes numerous memoranda, many of which are interspersed among the register entries (the year being denoted below by square brackets).
(at front) index to "places remarkable in this book" 1590-1673 (Loose leaf i) Picture of a house with a man standing in the doorway and people looking out of upper windows, n.d. [C17th.], and (on dorse) note on death and burial of Will Marel, dissenter, 1719.
(Loose leaf ii) various jottings. (at front) notes on the purchase of the book, and on copying of entries from the old book into the new, 1648 (Among entries) [1639] note on hiatus in the register after Mr. Eaton's decease, 1639-1641; [1653] note on election of Lewis Day as "Parish Register", signed by Rich. Edwards and W. Bedford, 22 September 1653; [1671] note on pension to the Vicar payable out of the Abbey lands at Old Warden, n.d. [c.1671?]; [1671-3] note on induction of Rev. Matthew Handscome as Vicar, 6 May 1727, followed by detailed notes on tithes, clerk's fees, dues etc., with list of farms, tenements and cottages paying small tithes, 1727; [1673] note on advice to clergy given at Bishop's Visitation, 1727; [1694] further notes on tithes, c.1727; [1706] note on the duties and wages of the parish clerk, n.d. [early C18th.]
Originals will not be produced. Please use transcript or microfilm
Published transcript available in searchroom. Also secrchroom microfilm 184/38
Reference
Transcript published in Bedfordshire Parish Register Series. Vol 10
Level of description
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