• Reference
    P75/1/1
  • Title
    General Register of Baptisms 1653-1680, 1683-1719; Marriages 1653-1680, 1683-1718; Burials 1653-1680, 1685-90, 1693-1719
  • Date free text
    1653-1719
  • Production date
    From: 1653 To: 1719
  • Scope and Content
    Also includes (at front): Note of appointment of William Bunn, Minister of Harlington, as "Parish Register", signed by Francis Astry, 1 December 1653; Copy of "His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury's letter to the Lords Bishops of his Province", 5 June 1716 [printed] with handwritten note by Tho:Frank that "My Lord Bishop of Lincoln expressly orders this Letter to be pasted in your Register Book"; Record of "the names of certaine children whereof ye Register booke being lost & perished are preserved in the private memorialls of their fathers" [9 baptisms] 1647-1652; Note of induction of Rev. Walter Foote as Vicar, 23 March 1718 (Among entries, 1713-14): Glebe terrier, 1708, with note on fees etc. payable to the Parish Clerk, 1818 (At back): Notes on collections in Church for the relief of persons visited with the sickness [plague] "payd into the Register's Office at Bedford", 1665-6.
  • Original will not be produced, please use transcript or microfilm
  • Published transcript available in searchroom. Also searchroom microfilm 184/2
  • Transcript published in Bedfordshire Parish register series Volume 20
  • Level of description
    item