Lists of Non-Parochial Registers and Records. 



149 



The original charter is printed at length in Dugdale's Monasticon, 

 from the Register of the Priory of Lewes, to which Farleigh was 

 a Cell, which Register, in 1650, was in the possession of John Selden. 



Mr. Nichols also gives 1 the following additional particulars : — 



" Ilbert de Chaz held lands of the Bohuns in Normandy as well as in England. 

 Cats, the place from which he derived his name, is a parish in the arrondissement 

 of St. Lo, and canton of Carentan. St. Georges and St. Andre de Bohon are 

 parishes in the same canton. The following charter 2 from the cartulary of the 

 neighbouring Abbey of .Montbourg, has been communicated by Mr. Stapleton : 



1 Notum sit omnibus presentibus et futuris quod ego Ilbertus de Caz do et 

 concedo in perpetuam elemosinam abbatie s'c'e Marie Montisburgi, ecclesiam de 

 Caz, cum omnibus ad earn pertinentibus, libere et quiete, pro salute anime mee et 

 omnium antecessorum meorum, concedeutibus domino meo Unfrido de Bohun, et 

 nepotibus meis Willelmo de Greinvill et Bartholomeo le Bigot, et ut firma sit 

 imperpetuum rnec donatio signo dominice crucis banc chartam confirmo et munio 

 coram subscripts testibus, Ilberto -f Unfrido de Bohun, Bartholomeo le Bigot, 

 et multis aliis. ' (fol. 104.)" 



Assuming that the Ch in Chaz was pronounced hard (like /»*), it 

 will be seen that the three known variations, in spelling, of the 

 name, viz., Cats, Caz, and Chaz, would not differ much in sound- 



Uists of fjbn*|)aroc{!t&I Registers anir °§tmh 



now in the custody of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, 

 pursuant to the Act of the 3rd and 4th Victoria, cap. 92. London : printed by 

 W. Clowes & Sons, Stamford Street, for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1841. 



Copied and Communicated by Mr. A. Colbman. 



The following pages contain so muck of the Lists as relates to 

 Wiltshire : — 3 



At the end of the extracts will be found a copy of the table of 

 contents of the lists. 



1 Bowles and Nichols, p. 373. 



2 Canon Jackson has given a translation of this charter (Wilt* Arch. Mag., 

 vol. iv., p. 282, note.) 



3 At the time of the introduction of the system of civil registration (by statute f 

 6 and 7 Will. IV., cap. 86) a Commission was issued for enquiring into the state 

 and authenticity of any registers other than parochial, which then existed, with 

 the result that about, seven thousand registers were discovered These registers 

 were, pursuant to the Act 3 and 4 Vict., cap. 92, entitled " An Act for enabling 

 Courts of Justice to admit Non- Parochial Registers as Evidence of Births or 

 Baptisms, Deaths or Burials, and Marriages," placed under the care of the 

 Registrar-General, and are receivable as evidence in courts of justice. — A.C. 



