| Description | A parchment book ending with baptisms 1789 and a paper book beginning with burials 1788 have been re-bound together in one volume; the second of these ends with burials June 1812 and baptisms April 1811; then follow ten paper sheets, which may have been a third book, with memoranda and, on the last two, reversed at end, baptisms June 1811-December 1812 and burials August-December 1812; the first and last (which appears to have become misplaced) sheets of memoranda give an assessment of land, with names of owners, for repair of mounds in the churchyard, 20 October 1702, and the other six give "An Abstract of writings belonging to the parish ... Beginning with what is entered in the old Register book viz", with a note that Mr Edward Willes, 5 November 1678, delivered up out of his hands ten "writings" belonging to the inhabitants of the parish which were "laid up" in the box within the parish chest, which had two locks and keys, one key being kept in Leamington Priors and the other in Newbold Comyn; then comes a numbered list of eight bonds, 1646-78, a counterpart indenture, 1669 and a lease, 1677; a further bond (listed as no. 11), 11 December 1678, is by Nicholas Paris to John Lees and Edward Rawbone, and a transcript of the conditions follows relating to the future care, by Nicholas Paris, of the church clock which he has lately altered and put in order and a note, signed by Edw. Willes and three others, that the bond was laid up in the Church chest 15 December 1678; next comes a list (nos. 12-26) of bonds and indentures relating to apprenticeship and of bonds and certificates relating to settlement, laid up in the box 1680, 1690, 1702, followed by a note "Thus far copied out of the old Register"; nos. 27-56 are similar documents laid up 1704, 1708, 1710, 1712, 1713, a note states "26 December 1716 Delivered up Nicholas Parish his bond (No. 11) to his Son Tho: Paris: the Father being dead"; and further documents (nos. 37-41) are "laid up", No date, 1719, 1720, 1721 (11 April and 4 June), 1723, 1724, 1724/5.
Includes, frequently, occupation, and one entry, 1705/6, reads "Alice Harding being Excommunicated & denyed Christian Buriall was buryed in a garden ye 13th of January". |