437 



Uuder the year 1548 there are 17 



1549 „ 21 



1550 „ 12 



1551 „ 21 



1552 „ 21 



The average of Christeniugs therefore was 14 annually in the first 

 15 years after the Register was first directed to be kept. The 

 entry is simply the date (of the Christening) and the name of one 

 parent, the father, but often simply the name of the child. 



Under the year 1612 certain entries occur in Latin, in a different 

 handwriting. Thus — 



" Christian filia Joliannis Partridge et uxoris ejus liaptizata fuit 69 Octobris 

 ano dom : 1612," 



The name of " Laurence" frequently occurs in entries of the 

 earliest date. At the bottom of the page after entries under the 

 date of 1621 is signed the name of " George Williams, Curate," and 

 this is the first attestation of any entry. The bottoms of the pages 

 are each, with one exception, so signed by him. In the year 1632 

 we find the following entry of the birth of John Locke, the Philo- 

 sopher — 



Aug. 29. John the sonne of John Locke. 



Under the date of 1637 we find an entry of the birth of another 

 Locke — 



Julie 16. John the sonne of Jeremy Locke and Elizabeth his wife. 

 Unfortunately this latter entry has been mistaken for the former, 

 which is the correct one, and the date of the Philosopher's birth has 

 been wrongly placed upon a Tablet erected to his memory on the 

 house where he was born, and which forms part of the N.W. 

 boundary of the churchyard of Wrington. It was also wi-ongly 

 recorded on the pedestal of the pillar suppoi-ting the stairs in the 

 Rectory House. John Locke, the writer, was the son of John, not 

 of Jeremy, Locke, and his father resided at Pensford, where he had 

 property. His birth at Wrington is said to have occun-ed during a 

 visit of his parents to the village. The attestation of the Register 

 by " George Williams, Curate," continues to the year 1638, after 

 which the entries are again unattested, and simply entered, as for 



instance, — 



"Aug. 30. Joan daughter of Edmund Badman." 



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