A Monograph on the Gainsborough Parish Registers |
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amongst Anabaptist ancient appears Axholme Baptisms BATTLE OF GAINSBOROUGH birth Bishops Bole Burial Register buried called Canon carucate Cavendish century Christian names Churchwardens Clergy Clerk Cock-feeder copies Cromwell Danes Danish death denote Diocesan Diocese Earl of Cornwall East Stockwith Edmund encampment England extract Gainsborough Church Gainsborough Parish Registers Gainsborough Registers Gainsburgh Grammar School Guide to Gainsborough Haxey Henry VIII Hickman Hill History of Gainsborough inhabitants of Gainsborough interesting Isle Isle of Axholme John King land Lincoln Lincolnshire Lord Burgh Manor of Gainsborough Markham marriages meaning mention Morton Newark nickname Norsemen North Warren Northolme Ollerton origin Parish of Gainsborough passed Pignot's Fee present probably raven banner Ravensfleet recorded Register-books Registrar River Ax Rose's Act Royalists Saint seems shew Sir H. B. Bacon Souldyer Stark says surnames Sweyn Thomas Burgh Thonock town Transcripts Trent Walkerith William word
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Page 4 - The curate of every parish church shall keep one book or register, which book he shall every Sunday take forth, and in the presence of the churchwardens, or one of them, write and record in the same all the weddings, christ'nings, and burials made the whole week before ; and for every time that the same shall be omitted, shall forfeit to the said church iijs. iiijd.
Page 32 - I, AB, do here in the presence " of God, the searcher of all hearts, take thee, CD, for " my wedded wife ; and do also in the presence of God, " and before these witnesses, promise to be unto thee, a
Page 7 - And the churchwardens shall once every year, within one month after the five and twentieth day of March, transmit unto the bishop of the diocese or his chancellor, a true copy...
Page 32 - England without the register's certificate that he had published banns on three ' successive Lord's days, at the close of the morning exercise, in the public meeting place commonly called the church or chapel, or (if the parties preferred it) in the nearest market-place on three successive market days.
Page 42 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 28 - Know all men, that the reason why little or nothing is registered from this year 1641 until the year 1649, was the Civil Wars between King Charles and his Parliament, which put all into a confusion till then ; and neither minister nor people could quietly stay at home for one party or the other...
Page 42 - Act was passed in 1678,1 which obliged the clergy to make an entry in the register that an affidavit had been brought to them within eight days after the burial, certifying that the requirements of the law had been fulfilled.
Page 42 - Saunders, her body was by her express request dressed ' in a very fine Brussels lace head-dress, a holland shift with a tucker and double ruffles of the same lace, and a pair of new kid gloves, and was then wrapped in a winding-sheet of fine linen.