Page:A transcript of the first volume, 1538-1636, of the parish register of Chesham in the county of Buckingham.djvu/23



Liber iste pertinet ad ecciam parochialem tæ mariæ de Chesham Leicester et Owborn in ComitCount [sic]. Buck in quo continentur noa Baptizator matrimoni solempnizanti & morienti in dicta eccia parochiali a x$o$ die mensis Octobris in A Dni a [sic] v$Co$ tricesimo octauo. Et A illustrissimi principis ni ri ni henrici Octaui Dei ga Angliæ et Francie regis fidei defensoris ni hiberniæ ac in terris sub pto eccliæ Angicanæ supremi capitis tricesimo: tempore wilmi daniel & Johannis at Slow vicarij ad invicem in eccia prædicta & in tempore Johannis hunton & Roberti Bachilor Gardiani eccliæ prædictæ.

Note, that this is the true copie of the old booke, or Register, which was by authoritie commaunded to be made the xl$th$ yeare of our gratious Quene Elyzabeth, wrytten faythfully forth by william Saunders in the xxv$th$ yeare of his ministerie in the Church of greate Chesham aforesaid being vicar of Chesham Owborne & Leicester A ætatis suæ 66 Rychard wood, and Edward Saale being Churchwardens, and in the monyth of October in the yeare from thincarnation of our Lord & Sauiour Jesus Christ the 1598 yeare.

Note also wheresoever there be any names omitted, they were not entered in the first copie or Regester.

Moreover it is to be noted that in all the tyme of the raygne of Quene Mary there were none of the Baptized, maried or Buried entered, by what occasion I know not, vnles by the negligence of the vicars then having the chardge.