| Description | Baptisms 15 April 1577 - 24 January 1590/1591 26 April 1593 - 2 May 1641 Marriages 17 November 1577 - 26 November 1587 20 October 1596 - 4 May 1641 Burials 31 August 1577 - 27 October 1588 20 January 1596/1597 - 24 March 1640/1641 The missing years are stated to be missing from the old register book from which the entries 1577 - 1598 were copied. On front flyleaf: 'Robert True, vicar of this town came hither in the year of our Lord God 1596'. 'This register book was bought 10 October 1598, costing 8s., George Bonde and William Walman being churchwardens'. 'Memorandum that Leonard Wind is suspended' (crossed out) After baptisms: Copy of affirmation and limitation of assignment of 13s. 4d. ordered by Henry VIII (23 December 1546) to be given by Trinity College annually to the poor of Over, Bishop of Ely orders that it be distributed via the vicar and churchwardens on All Saints day to the older and more devoted poor parishioners, 10 August 1640. Solemn League and Covenant on reformation and defence of religion, the honour and happiness of the King and the peace and safety of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, signed by 158 persons (1643). Note by Robert Bischeno of his beginning of office of parish clerk, 28 June 1648. At back: description of perambulation of parish by vicar, churchwardens and fen reeves and many others who for weariness were not able to endure the journey, meeting the Willingham procession upon the baulks, praying and singing psalms at Stump Cross; the dryness of the year giving opportunity for the perambulation, 11 May (Tuesday in Gang week), 1602. |