BUCKLAND NEWTON PARISH REGISTER. 103 



and his Royall posteritie with long and happie yeres to Raigne 

 over vs. 



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Imprinted at London by Robert Barker Printer to our late 

 Soveraigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth, March xxiiij Anno Dni, 

 1602." 



This was the actual day of the Queen's death, and the proclama- 

 tion was made at Dorchester five days after. 



In the year 1625 we arrive at the unfortunate hiatus which has 

 been already mentioned, which continued until 9th February, 

 1653-4, when an entry informs us that "This booke [was] scene 

 and allowed to be continued A Register booke for the pishe of 

 Buckland Newton, by me, John Arnold," the third day of Aprill 

 1654. It was at this time that Parliament directed that Registrars 

 should be chosen by every parish, to be approved of and sworn by 



