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of tills aft, before ilie rcgidering of the memoiial of the 

 (lead 01' conveyance, undev which fuch fvibfeqacnl purchafcr 

 or nioi-LgagcL' (hall tluim ; and the like as to iiicinoriuls of 

 wills not regiftci-ed. 



Ill 1735, a fimilar rcgifter of mortgages, &c. was legally 

 cnafted for the North Riding of the county of York ; 

 whence York and Middlefex are regifler counties. (2 & 

 3 Ann. cap. 4. 6 Ann. cap. 35. 7 Ann. cap. 20. 8 

 Geo. II. cap. 6.) Thefe ftatutcs do not extend to copy- 

 hold ellates, leafes at a rack-rent, or to any Icafes not ex- 

 ceeding 21 years, where the pofTeflion goes with the leafe ; 

 r.or to any chambers in the inns of court. 



Many have wiflied that the fame regulation was extendi-d 

 to all the counties of England and Wales ; but judge Blatk- 

 ilone obferves, that, however plaufible thefe provifions may 

 appear in theory, it hath been doubted, by very competent 

 judges, whether more difputes have not arifen in thofe 

 counties, by the inattention and oraiffion of parties, than 

 ' prevented by the ufe of regifters. 



Register, more correftly Regi/lrer, Regijlrarius, is alfo 

 ufed for the clerk, or keeper of a regifter, or regillry. 



Of thefe we have fevcral, denominated from the regifters 

 they keep ; as regifter of the high court of delegates, re- 

 gifters of the arches court of Canterbury, regifter of the 

 court of admiralty, regifter of the prerogative court, re- 

 gifters of the province of Canterbury, regifter of the arch- 

 deaconry of Middlefex, &c. regifter of the faculty office, 

 and regifter of the garter, who is always dean of Windfor, 

 and deputy regifters. 



There are alfo, in the court of chancery, tiic principal 

 regifter, the lord chancellor's regifters, the regifters of the 

 mafter of the rolls, entering regifters, and regifter of the af- 

 fidavits. 



The appellation of regifter or regiftrarius is alfo given to 

 a notary. See Notary, and Notary, Public. 

 Register, City. See Towx-C/<?ri. 

 Register of a parifli church, is a book in which the 

 yearly baptifms, marriages, and burials, of each parifti, are 

 orderly regiftered. See Marriage. 



This praftice was laudably inftituted by that great but 

 unfortunate perfon Thomas Cromwell, earl of Effex, anno 

 153R, while he was vicar -general to king Henry VIII. ; 

 and it was continued in the reigns of king Edward VI. and 

 of queen Elizabeth. 



Thefe parilh regifters are to be kept in a coff'er, provided 

 by the churchwardens, with three locks and keys, one of 

 wliich is to remain with the minifter, and the other two 

 with the churchwardens feverally, fo that neither the mi- 

 nifter without the two church warden?, near the church, 

 wardens without the minifter, lliall at any time take that 

 book out of the faid coff'er. Tiiefe pariih regifters are to 

 be fubfcribed by the minifter and churchwardens ; and 

 the names of the perfons ftiall be tranfmitted yearly to the 

 biftiop ; and it has been enforced by canon 70, and by 

 ftatute, &c. 



By 26 Geo. II. c. 33. to make a falfe entry in a 

 marriage regifter, to alter it when made, to forge or coun- 

 terfeit fuch entry or a man-iage licence, or aid and abet 

 fuch forgery, to utter the fame as true knowing it to be 

 counterfeit, or to deftroy or procure the deftruftion of 

 any regifter, in order to vacate any marriage, or fubject 

 any perfon to the penalties of this aft ; all thefe offences, 

 knowingly and wilfully committed, fiibjeft the party to 

 the guilt of felony, without benefit of clergy. 



By the 30 C. il. c. 5. for burying in woollen, it is 

 enafted, that the minifter of every parifti fliall keep a re- 

 gifter in a book to be provided at the charge of the parifti, 



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and make a true entry of all burials wiiliin his parifti, ir.'- 

 of all affidavits of pcrfono being buried in woollen brougl/ 

 unto him according to tlie faid aft ; and where no fuel 

 affidavit ffiall be brought to him within the time therein 

 hnited, he fliall enter a memorial thereof in the faid re- 

 giftry, againft the name of the parly interred, and of ihi 

 time wlien he notified the fame to the churchwardens or 

 overfeers of the poor according to the faid act. 



An approved regifter of births, confifting of certificate; 

 figned by two perfons who were prefent at tlie faid births, 

 and entered in a book figned by the regifter or fecretan/. 

 is kept with great accuracy, and authenticated by a cor;.- 

 mittcc, for the benefit of Proteftant diifentcrs and other.-. 

 This book is depofited and carefully preferved at Dr. Wil- 

 liams's library, Rcd-crofs Street, Cripplegate, to which 

 any perfon may have free accefs at the ftated hours, under 

 the direftion of the fecretary of the faid library, whofe at- 

 tention to his office entitles him to public refpeft. 



Register is alfo a title of a book, containing the 

 forms of moft of the writs, original and judicial, uTed i:. 

 common law. This is c:dled the regijlcr of •writs, or rt- 

 giftrum omnium brcvium. This rcgifter. Coke on Littlelo:. 

 obferves, is one of flie moft ancici.t books of the common 

 law. And judge Blackftone obferves concerning it, that 

 it is the moft ancient and higlily venerable coUeftion of legal 

 forms, upon which Fitzherbert's Natura Brevium is a com- 

 ment, and in which every man, who is injured, will be Uirc 

 to find a method of relief, exaftly adapted to his own cafe, 

 deicribcd in the compafs of a few lines, and yet without 

 the omifiion of any material circuinftancc. 



Register, in Antiquity, a book or table at Athens, be- 

 longing to each particular ?pa:1fi5r, or ward, in which all 

 fathers were obliged to enrol their fons, niakmg oath, at 

 the fame time, that every fon, {o regiftered, was either boru 

 to them in lawful wedlock, or lawfully adopted. The 

 adopted fons were regiftered in the feilival Thargeliaj the 

 natural, upon the third day of the feftival ApaturL^. 



At what age children were thus regiftered is not agreed. 

 Some are of opinion, that at every return of the Apaturia 

 it was cuftomary to regifter all the children that had been 

 born that year. Others affirm, that they were commonly 

 three or four years old before they were regiftered. 



There were two other feafons when young Athenians 

 were enrolled in a public regifter : one, when they arrived 

 at the age of eighteen years, and were admitted into the 

 number of the (ZrS'A, and was performed on the third day of 

 the feftival Apaturia ; and the other, before the feftival Pana- 

 thenaea, when thofe who were twenty years old were en- 

 tered in a rcgifter, called 't.r^^i-j-^x.w, ; ly^u/xxi^Kv, in which 

 the names of all perfons of that borougli, who were of age 

 to fucceed in the ?.v,Ji-, or inheritance of their fathers, were 

 entered. This was termed t9 be regijlercd among the men : 

 and the perfons, thus enrolled, became their own mafters, 

 and free from the government of their guardians. Potter's 

 Arch. GrEEC. vol. i. p. 48. 



Registers of Ejlates, the accounts of particular thincrs 

 which belong to them, as thofe of rentals, valuations of 

 fields, names, admealurements, different portions of land, 

 cottages, and other buildings diftinft from the farms, and 

 any other feparate parts. In thefe regifters the valuations 

 are to be inferted in columns, as they arife from furveys or 

 other ways, and afford the means of fixing the real valu'.s 

 in re-letting the lands or for other purpofes. 



Alfo, a general regifter of the timber trees which are 

 growing on the feveral divifions of the eftates, fhculd always 

 be kept ; in which the number contained in each feparate 

 wood, grove, hedge-row, or any other part, muft be en- 

 tered. 



