The registers of St. Nicholas, Ipswich, Co. Suffolk / transcribed by Edward Cookson.

Date:
1897
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The registers of St. Nicholas, Ipswich, Co. Suffolk / transcribed by Edward Cookson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The Register Books of the Parish of St. Nicholas, Ipswich, are, from their commencement in 1539 to 1812, four in number. Volume I. contains entries of Marriages from 1539 to 1710, Baptisms from 1539 to 1709, and Burials from 1551 to 1710. It measures i6|- inches long by 6| inches wide and is of parchment, and at the commencement has the following memorandum, This Register book was bought and provided by Henry Piper and Edward Langley, churchwardens, in Anno Dni. 1607, for Mariages, Christenings and Burials. It was bought in accordance with the 70th Canon of Convocation of the first year of King James I, wherein it is stated, amongst other particulars relating to Parish Registers and their preservation, that in every parish church . . . shall be provided one parchment book . . . wherein shall be written the day and year of every christening wedding and burial . . . since the time that the law was first made ... so far as the ancient books thereof can be procured, but especially since the beginning of the reign of the late Queen. [Elizabeth]. This first book of the Parish Registers forms the present volume, and it is hoped that the succeeding books will make their appearance in similar form.