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RefNoKP150/1/2
AltRefNoP150/1/2
TitleParish of St. Mary, composite register
DescriptionContaining:
Baptisms 8 May 1569 - 6 October 1658, 18 August 1662
Marriages 29 October 1559 - 11 July 1653
Burials 25 October 1559 - 1 September 1653

There are burials among baptisms 1652 & 1653. Marriages are included under baptisms 1650 - 1653. No baptismal entries 6 October 1653 - 18 August 1662. No burials 1561, 1608. Under burial entries 'Carolus rex Angliae decollatus Londini January 30th 1648 Anno regni 24.'

At the back of the register there are the following notes:
1644 Vincent bestnotie cestes post lustrum ascendent caelos.
1649 Hoc anno hereses abundanter pullalabant et ministri evangelici autorationum quotidie expectabant.
1651 22 August Mr. Christo Love decollatus est. (Christopher Love, a Puritan minister of New Inn Hall, Oxford, publisher of a number of controversial pamphlets and sermons, was condemned and executed for plotting against the Commonwealth in 1651).

There are also sundry names and figures. Half of the last page has been cut out.

In 1667 the parishes of S.S. Cyriac and Julitta and St. Mary were united by Act of Parliament, though in fact the two benefices had been held by one incumbent for sixty years previous to that date, (see P150/3/1).
Date1559 - 1667
CreatorNameSwaffham Prior Parish Church
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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