PARISH RECORDS OF HARTSHORN, DERBYSHIRE. 4! 
Knowing the value of such documents in elucidating local 
history, I have transcribed in full the Churchwardens’ Accounts 
for the year 1612—+the first year given in the earliest book—- which 
is well kept, and has many interesting entries, not the least being 
the very full inventory of goods then belonging to the parish 
church. To this full transcript I have appended extracts from 
the accounts for succeeding years of all entries likely to be of 
value to the local historian. 
[To Mr. North’s excerpts, I have added a few brief notes.— 
eC. C., Ep.| 
A® 1612 
Hartshorne James Royll and Denis Hashard 
Churchwardens ther Accompts are as 
foloweth. 
1. Imp* paid att london y* v™ of Maie fora 
bible in7-s. bey SS. oa re 47° 6% 
2. Itm. paid att london for exchange of the 
Comuion Cupp ... Bae re es Po 
3-  Itm. p* for bringing them dowen c ee 
4. Itm. layd forth y* 5 of Maie att y° hee 
byshop visitation att Repton.* a ro 
5-  Itm. maie 14 gevin to a poore man az a 
6.  Itm. 14 of June gevin to y* inhabitanc of 
Harsmworth in middlesex vyppon leters 
patents... =e: oo so see oh 
7.  Itm. June y* 16 pd. to y® apareter for his 
ffees for recording o" Regester for A° 
1611 es — wes ee as 6% 
8. Itm. July 23 gevinto a poore man traveling 
w" letters patents ~ ae BS 6% 
* Provincial Visitations of an Archbishop are most exceptional in post-Refor- 
mation times. The Visitation of his former See by Archbishop Abbot, in the 
year after his translation to Canterbury, seems to have been caused by a desire 
to assert his authority in various disputes in which he was engaged with his late 
Chapter. The Lichfield muniments show that the Dean and Chapter success- 
fully resisted the Archbishop’s unprecedented and repeated claims to nominate 
Canons Residentiary. 
