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General register of Baptisms 1663-1679, 1718-1786; Marriages 1663-1679, 1718-1753; Burials 1663-1679, 1718-1786

1663-1786

From: 1663 To: 1786

Also includes numerous memoranda, mostly transcribed or noted in B.P.R.S. Vol.37, pp.B17-18. These include notes by the Rev.G.C. Black [Rector 1759-1775] on the missing part of the register from 1679-1718, "observable on my first receiving it in 1759"; at front: Perambulation of Potsgrove Parish, Ascension Day, 15 May 1760 [detailed]; note "the marriage register is in the possession of Wm Betley, parish clerk, 1774"; Copies of inscriptions on two flat gravestones near the Reading desk, relating to the Saunders family 1535 and 1555, copied in 1727; various texts and mottos, written c.1730; note on the induction of William Capell M.A. (formerly Rector of Stogumber, Somerset) as curate of Battlesden and Potsgrove, and Rector of Milton Bryan [1710] and afterwards as Rector of Battlesden and Potsgrove, March 1726/7; Note on the union of the benefices of Battlesden and Potsgrove by Richard, Bishop of Lincoln, 6 June 1732. All Burial entries "allowed" and signed by Justices of the Peace from 1723-1758. After burials, 1759; notes on the clergy, 1759-1821 At back: Copies of the Archbishop's letter to the Bishops of his Province, 27 June 1737, and the Bishop's letter to the clergy in his Diocese, 30 July 1737.

Original will not be produced, please use transcript or mircofilm

Published transcript available in searchroom. Also searchroom microfilm 229/40

Transcript published in Bedfordshire PArish Register Series Vol 37

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Black, George Charles,
Betley, William,
Saunders,
Capell, William

POTSGROVE, Registers of marriages, Registers of baptism, Registers of burials, MARRIAGE, baptism, burial, parish clerk, BATTLESDEN, MILTON BRYAN, parish union, clergy