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Collections for a History of Seagry. 



1804:— 



" We whose names .... do agree to have a leg of mutton and seven 

 gallons of beer and to be dressed at the officer's house in the parish. Witness 

 our hands, Thomas Scaly, John Beak, churchwardens. James Baily, John Young." 



1808 :— 



" William Wheeler appointed clerk at Is. per week." 

 18L0: 



" Thanksgiving for plentiful harvest, 2s. Qd." 



Registers. 



The registers date from 1610. They consist of eight books and 

 are all in a good state of preservation. Register A. (the oldest) is 

 a parchment volume, and contains the baptisms, burials and marriages 

 from 1610 to 1710. Register B. contains the baptisms, burials and 

 marriages from 1710 to 1811 (the marriages in this book are entered 

 only up to 1756, when a new book begins). Register C. contains 

 the marriages from 1756 to 1811. Register D., the marriages from 

 1813 to 1837. Registers E. and F., the marriages from 1838 to 

 the present time. Register G., the burials from 1813 to the present 

 time. Register H., the baptisms from 1813 to the present time. 



Mxtracts. 

 November 29th, A.D. 1739 



" I came to live in the parish of Seagry, in the county of Wilts, forty years 

 ago last Lady-day, and have lived in the said parish ever since that time, and I 

 found it to be the custom of the parish when I first came to pay Easter offerings, 

 which I have paid or my husband for me ever since. The amount of money for 

 Easter offerings is two pence for every person above sixteen years of age, and 

 Mr. Simons when alive always fetched the money himself. Witness my hand, 

 +, the mark of Mary Carey. In the presence of Ayliffe Henry Richmond." 



November 20th, 1739 :— 



" I was possessed of my estate about ye time that Mr. Symons, our late vicar, 

 died. Since that time I have paid a composition tithe to Mr. Pulsford, our 

 present vicar, and likewise Easter offerings, for I am well persuaded that the 

 payment of Easter offerings is an antient custom in ye parish of Seagry. Witness 

 my hancf, John Hibbard." 



