REGISTERS OF MORLEY AND SMALLEY. 89 



1707 'Oct. 26 Elianora y c dearly loved wife of William 

 " Wilson R r of this parish was buryed." 



1 7 16 "Mar. 21 M r Robert Fletcher of y e parish of 

 " Denbigh (Denby) and M rs Katherine Richardson of Smalley 

 " in this parish of Morley were marryed." 



This oldest Register of Morley ends, seriatim, August 17th, 

 1 735, but on the last page is a later entry : — 



" Sep. 1770 Jeremy Shaw was buried aged 94." 

 The cover of the register has the following unecclesiastical entry, 

 probably a memorandum by some farmer churchwarden : — 

 " Breended Cow, Buled June y e 6 1739." 

 The oldest Register of Smalley commences June 1st, 1623. 

 It is of parchment, and is in very fair preservation. Under 

 1625 is a long notice in Latin, recording the death of James 

 1st, in which the following words only are legible : — "...obiit 



Jacobus fortissimus literarum... . beatissimam Anti christi 



Antagonista omnium virtutum domicilium Reipublice 



Moderato 



p me Hen " 



" Robert James, Buried in Smalley Chancell on Wednes- 

 " day being the 20 th of September 1627." 



" Thomas Ellott of Kydsley in y e Bodye of y e Chappell 

 " att Smaley in y e parish of Morley. Buried on Fridaye 

 "Beeinge the xii m of November i628. : ' 



'' Thomas Smeeton theld r of Kidsley buried in the He 

 " betwixt the chancell and the Arche of the chappel of 

 " Smaley on the eleventh of December 1632." 



1636 " Elizabeth Cowper vidua sepulta fuit die 25 

 " mensis Augusti Anno dni primo suprascripto " There 

 " Belongeth to the chappell By her decease that (poore) 

 " in decay cottagge & garden " 

 ''Smalley Milne" occurs in 1637. 

 The first entry in the Smalley Register of the Richardson 

 family occurs under 1637; and in Morley 1604? or at least 

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