I2I 
The Registers of the Parish Church 
(St. Moodwen’s) Burtonzon-eTrent. 
N Friday, April 13th, 1893, the Vicar of Burton (The 
Rev. Vicars A. Boyle, M.A., B.C.L.) read a Paper 
before the Natural History and Archeological Society, on 
‘Parish Registers,” illustrated by references to the Burton 
Parish Registers. This paper it was proposed to publish 
in the Society’s Transactions; but, yielding to the Vicar’s 
representations that the publication of original documents was 
more in accordance with the aim of the Society, the Publica- 
tion Committee consented to publish a portion of the Register 
itself. The portion chosen is the Marriage Register from 1538 
to 1686. This is included in the first volume of the Parish 
Registers, a small quarto, bound in calf, and consisting of 
some four hundred leaves of paper. The volume contains the 
Register of Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials from 1538 to 
1686, each separate, and in the order named. The book is 
perfect, with the exception of the title and the first leaves of 
the Baptismal Register. The last six leaves of the volume 
contain a list of Briefs and persons ex-communicate. The 
entries (except during the three years 1578 to 1581, where 
they are in English) are throughout the book in Latin. There 
are few entries of events other than Baptisms, Marriages, 
and Burials, and such are, for the most part, notices of the 
Bishop’s Visitations, and of the appointment of Ministers of 
the Parish Church. In transcribing the entries, the Vicar 
has departed from the original in these particulars: 
1. Latin has been translated into English. 
2. Superfluous words are omitted, 7.e., such formal repeti- 
tions as ‘“‘were married.” 
3. Contractions are extended. 
4. Dates are reduced to the margin. 
