BUCKLAND NEWTON PARISH REGISTER. 105 



J.P., the witnesses then being William Bryce of Buckland Newton, 

 William Bolter of Beer Regis, Robertt Squibb of Whitchurch, and 

 William Coker Jun. of fframpton, Gentlemen. Soon after this 

 date viz., between October and December, 1658, a note has been 

 made by the Lay Registrar, which shakes our confidence a little in 

 the exactitude of every entry. " Here is to bee noted that here 

 followinge ar regestred seuerall psons births and buryalls accordinge 

 to the just tymes thereof but not all in order as they were borne 

 or buryed : (or marryed) by Reason that I Came not to the 

 knowledge of it the parish being spacious and my selfe not able by 

 Reason of sicknes to enquire after it and soe to doe it orderly." 

 This memorandum shews the mistake of Parliament in making any 

 person, other than the minister who performed the rite, the keeper 

 or registrar of the record. 



One entry in the Register during the Commonwealth period 

 descends more into particulars than is usually the case. " Katherin 

 Sacheverell of Buckland wid., was buryed Julij the twenty-thyrd, 

 1657. Shee was about the age of 86 yeares and leeued in this 

 pish about 40 yeares in which tyme (by the mercy of god) shee 

 was one that loued and followed the word of God, and was a pyous 

 and Charytable woman : & in her Conversation vnblameable And 

 in her last End Comfortable in her god and savyour with whome 

 shee now doth leeue in glory." This lady was married to John 

 Cheverell gent., (as the name \vas often written) 12th September, 

 1616, as Katherine White of Stratton. Her husband is probably 

 identical Avith the John Sacheverell, the great-great-grandfather of 

 the famous Henry Sacheverell, D.D. 



After the Restoration it is satisfactory to see that Church 

 Discipline was still maintained among the unruly parishioners of 

 Buckland. On May 3rd, 1674, Mr. William Aarnold and Jone 

 Lane were excommunicated in Buckland Church. On the 16th of 

 the same month Martha Lane, the reputed " dafter " of Thomas 

 Trew, of Clinger, was baptised, and a few days afterwards viz., 

 on May 31st, "Thomas Trew bore Penance in Church." 



Mr. William Arnold appears to have been incorrigible, for on 



