Old English social life as told by the parish registers / by T.F. Thiselton-Dyer.

  • Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
1898
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Old English social life as told by the parish registers / by T.F. Thiselton-Dyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SOCIAL LIFE AS TOLD BT THE PARISH REGISTERS. INTRODUCTION. S almost unique records of the domestic history of the English people in days gone by, the parish registers are of priceless value. It is only of late years, however, that their real importance has been duly estimated, and means suggested for their security and preservation in time to come. Indeed, it must ever be a source of deep regret to the historian and antiquary that such precious documents should have been for so many years the objects of careless indifference, their safe-keeping only too frequently having been committed either to an ignorant parish clerk, or to an apathetic parson. Hence we find repeated notices of the mutilation and partial destruction of registers, the result in most cases of neglect. Mr. Bigland, in writing on the subject, mentions his having to consult a register, and his surprise when directed to the cottage of a poor labouring
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