| Description | Baptisms: 10 March 1564/65 - 24 December 1713
Marriages: 8 June 1565 - September 1712
Burials: 1 January 1564/65 - 14 March 1713/14
No baptisms January 1652/53 to January 1655 [N.S.] and gap, February 1669/70 to March 1676. Ten entries, 1671 - 1675, apparently added later. No marriages 1651 - 1653, and gap 1670 - 1674. No burials 1652 - 1653 and gaps 1670 - 1674 and 1687 - 1689. Burials in woollen noted, 1678 - 1681.
At front: Note that this register was begun in October 1596.
After baptisms, 1656. Memorandum of appointment of James Gifford as Parish Register.
Before baptisms, 1675: Memorandum that Edward Gifford, clerk "was put on by the Minister & Churchwardens", 15 April 1683, and similar entry for James Thody, clerk, 17 April 1688.
After marriages: Extract from will of Thomas Fowler of Sidney College Cambridge, proved 22 September 1680, bequeathing farm to his nephew, Thomas Hovell, alias Smith, on condition that he pays at Christmas every year £4 to two sizars at Sydney College, £1 to Ely Saint Mary, Ely Trinity and Chettisham, and £1 to the minister of Dry Drayton, the last to be disposed of as follows: 2s.6d. to minister for a pair of gloves and to preach a sermon on the Sunday before the 8th January "urging the indispensable obligation of the Christian vow in baptism", 6s. for bread to be distributed to the poor and needy on the same day, 9s. to be given to 6 of the poorest people or families in the parish in equal portions, on the same day, and 2s.6d. to the churchwardens, overseers and clerk for their trouble; with memorandum by the Minister that he can give no account of the legacy, 1779. Memoranda of briefs, 1678 - 1698. [Transcribed in F.A. Walker's History of Dry Drayton, pp. 65-72.]
After burials, 1669: memoranda of briefs, 1676 - 1678; memorandum of elections of churchwardens, 1677 - 1678.
At burials, 1678: memorandum that all burials to be in woollen following Act of Parliament, from 1 August 1678.
After burials, 1686: banns 9 January [1653/1654] - 7 August 1656, 6 October 1678.
Most of baptisms 1652, on inserted scrap of parchment.
(Page mutilated at end of marriages, and three more near end of burials.) |