Cherry Burton |
The first book contains entries dating from 1561, copied from an older Register (which unfortunately seems to have been lost), as appears from the following heading at the beginning of the book :- "The Register Booke of North Burton, Alias Cherry Burton. "Transcribed according to the olde Booke, Anno Dorn. 1647, Regis "Caroli xxiii."
On the last page we read : "This Register booke was belonging "to Mr. Thomas Micclethwayt, & was most of it transcribed out of "ye old Register by Nicholas Pearson," &c. &c., but it is evident, by the various styles of handwriting, that Nicholas Pearson transcribed only part. The book measures 12 by 7 inches, and is bound in rough leather and stamped:-
The transcribed entries of Births, Marriages, and Burials are continued respectively to 1688, 1705, and 1683, but as these are in duplicate, and contained in the sccond book, it was considered unnecessary to print them, but any material difference between the two entries is contained in brackets.
The second book measures 15 by 6 inches, and is bound in rough leather, stiff covers, and consists of 34 paper pages and 44 parchment pages, several of which are blank. The book is closed with tape tags in the place of clasps, and on the outside of the cover is a red label, embossed in gilt letters:-
This Register has been exhibited several times in Court (vide notes at the end of the book), and is an example of the value of these parish records as evidence in legal proceedings.
The thanks of the Society are due to the Vicar (the Reverend Bramwell Burton) for his kindness in allowing the transcription to be made and printed.
ARTHUR T. WINN.
ALDEBURGH,
SUFFOLK.
One Dwelling House and one other out House three Barns two Stables and one Dove Coat and one Hogsty, one Garden and Orchard one little Close call'd Well Close and three Oxgangs of arable in the Field. Three.
All manner of Tyths great and small without any Exception
Modus or Composition.
Mortuaries.
The Customary Offerings at Easter, for every Communicant two
pence, for a Plow one penny, for a Drape one penny, for a Dove
Coat one shilling.
Surplice fees, for a Wedding with Licence ten Shillings, by
publication of Banns three Shillings & four pence, for Burial one
Shilling and two pence, for churching Eightpence.
June ye Tenth 1765
Thomas Barker Rector
Churchwardens:-
Joseph Constable
Robert Wardil his mark
George Seller
Thomas Willson
Principal Inhabitants:-
John Ellerington
Lawrence Stephenson the younger
Robert Constable
Robert Constable
Stephen Day
William Stevhenson
Edward Johnson
Lawrence Stephenson
Ita testor John John Rector of Cherryburton.
And in 1695 it was sold for Ten shillings.
1682 sold for 10s.
83 for 10s.And in 1698 the same Crofts were first tythed by Benjamin
84 for eight shillings.
85 for 10s-& so was to 98 for 10s.
Bowser, then sold for ten shillings two pence.
Witnesse Will Pearson.
Cherry Burton Glebe in the East FieldCopied from a paper of T. B. the late Rr by Robt Darley Waddilove Rr 1775 M.A. Vicar of Topcliffe in this County Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of this Province and to Lord Grantham Ambasr at the Court of Spain.
1 & ½ Acre at North Side
2 Acres at Kirk Close Nouk
2 & ½ , at Long Balks
2, at Hourn
1, at Stintins 1
1, at Stone Pitt Heads
1, at Butt-hills
1 & ½ , at West Masstills
1 & ½ , at Raintrop Hill
3 , at Little Street
Witnesses
John Johnson Rectr ibid.
Will: Peirson.
Esther Johnson.
Elizabeth Ringrose her marke
Surnames | Surnames | Surnames |
---|---|---|
1562 | Stevenson | Hodson |
Bass | Binks | Bourne |
Taylor | Donne | '3 Ashton |
Lowthrop | Mawer | Harrison |
Wilson | '4 Walker | Hogge |
Swabie | '5 Gibson | Rusholme |
'4 Nares | '6 Heslewood | '36 Lilly |
Marshall | '7 Langdale of Gartholme | '37 Clitherow |
Barker | '38 Presst | |
Fisher | Wallis | Scare |
Foster | '8 Goodlad | '39 Kelsy |
Johnson | Butterfield | Southeren |
'6 Bell | Burdon | '42 Fisher |
Hugginson | 1598 | '44 Coale |
Harrison | Cocke | '46 Stockdale |
'8 Lawty | Wetwang | Smyth |
Cocks | Leng | '47 Ledham |
Bomer | 1600 Hew | '48 Eland |
'9 Clarke | Gowld | '49 Cole |
Lancaster | Singleton | '50 Williams |
Pattinson | Hickington | '51 Collison |
'70 Butler | 1601 Botterell | '53 Billops |
Sikes | '3 Elliott | '55 rosier |
'3 Barran | Middleton | Moon |
Bower | '4 Tompson | Haliday, Garth : |
'4 Londye | Thornton | '57 Jennison |
Harrarowe | '5 Richmond | '58 Mutch |
'5 Dixon | Rigge | '59 Baker |
Robinson | '7 Collham | '62 Ayre |
'6 Sparks | Loft | '63 Hewson |
'7 Dawson | '9 Winteringham | Gale |
'8 Hargrave | Raper | 1664 |
Nicholson | 1610 Warriner | Richinson |
Cropton | '11 Peacocke | Elfing |
'9 Culverwell Rectr. | Filthy | '68 Carter |
Blackelocke | Watson | '70 Gillon |
Woodmansy | '13 Bethell | '76 Simon |
Cannaby | '14 Burgan | Wright |
'80 Browne | Hessy | Hewson |
'1 Rey or Rea | '15 Micelethwayte Rectr | Horsley Garth: |
Marre | Blanshard, Garth | Hardy |
'2 | Walker | Pease |
'3 Constable | Swift | Monkeman |
'4 Derrington | '16 Coates | Gruby |
Towton | Sympson | Hindesley |
'5 Wilbert | '20 Coulson | Bedell |
Bennet | '26 Sparrow | |
'6 Hall | '32 Ruston | |
'9 Heward | '33 Vauper | |
'91 Hunter | Archer, Gartholme | extinct or removed. |
'2 Gryme | Rayly | |
'3 Gilson | '35 Smythson |
1692. Decemb. 8th (which was the day of ye Death of the second sqire) about 2 a clocke in ye night was a violent Tempest of Wind whc overthrew ye Chantry Helmes & the Chymney of ye Lodging parlour of the parsonage house, whc was reedifyed the July following: John Johnson Rector.
1896. In February or March were scene Two sons in ye morning Tide.
This Register booke was belonging to Mr Thomas Micelethwayt & was most of it transcribed out of ye old Register by Nicholas Pearson, & that was done out of the proper charge & cost of Mr Tho: Micelethwayte Rectr & being found in his Library was given by Dr John Micelethwayte of London (afterwards Knight & Physician to Kg Charles 2d) to mee John Johnson & belongs not to ye parish but to my executer, to dispose of. Rector of Ch: Burton.
Memorandm upon Sunday Febr : 12b, 1687, there happened about halfe a quarter before foure in ye afternoonc, after sermon, a sudden violent pulsation, or as it were a Mighty Thump in ye earth tht is a kind of earthquake, tht resembled the report of a cannon, wth some noise before & after, & causing the earth & the buildings thereon to shake, but it lasted but a moment in this place. Ita testor. Cherryburton Febr: 12, 1687. John Johnson Rr ibid.
Febr. 24, 1689. This day att the suns rising were seene two suns when the sun was about a quarter of an houre risen, the appearance of the second sun or paralia was seemingly att 60 yards distance on ye north east of ye true sun.
Memorandm. That in March 1691/2 the Incumbent of the Rectory of Cherry Burton John 9 Johnson did plant a certaine number of Ashetrees From the cast stile to the steeple, a good distance from the quarry yards Fence, that for the future No church- warden or Parishioner might lay claime to them, they being entirely planted in the Freehold of the Rectour, Ita testor Johannes Johnson Rectr de Cherry Burton. Apr: 8h, 1692.
Decemb: 8h, 1692. In the night was a violent wind in manner of a Hurrican, out of ye west & south which threw downe the top of ye little parlour chimney, & cast it over ye householder of [illegible] about sixe yards from the foundation, whc was repayred in 1693.
The same day or night dyed the second sqire, as appears by ye books.
1896. In February or March were seene to suns in ye morning tyde by 2 Inhabitants.
Aprill 1st, 1699. The little bell was splitt or rent by ringing a peale att the burial of Willm Caiper, in ye hand of Francis Russell.
Dec : 18, 1702. The Kitchen Chimney of the, of ye parsonage (which had stood arry about 10o yeares in psons mind) fell downe in a calme about 2 or 3 in ye morning & brought downe a whole garter or bay of building next to it without any further harme of any living creature (Laus deo) & was erected from ye foundation & finshd Janu: 17h by ye pryssnt Incumbent, John Johnson.
The Names.This entry is lined out.
The Justices.
The Testimoniell
1675. Upon the complaint & outcry of his Majies subjects in these parts that there have beene severall robberyes & other mis- demeanors comitted here, more than have beene in former times, All the Villanies do arise by ye negligence of the Constables & other Officers to whom the Appryhension of Rogues and punishmt of Vagabonds & other loose & disorderly persons do so belong.
His Majies Justices of ye peace att the quarter sessions have therefore thought fitt to take present & pticular order for the punishing suppressing & rooting out all sorts of unlawfull wanderers and beggars: & to have an Account of all loose & disorderly persons in this Riding.
To which Order Ralfe Warton Knight & Durand Hotham two of his Majies Justices of the peace; to mee directed the more imediate care of seing all the statutes & good lawes executed, that have been & are in force for the punishing & reforming such psons.
They two his Majies Justices of ye peace have thought fitt, & that there may be noe excuse of Ignorance on yt pt I have sent you a Brevary (occording to Order) of the Duty & rewards & punishmts in this Affaire.
In his Majies name requiring and commanding you ye Constables, to use ye uttmost diligence in this so Important concerne, or you will answer ye Contrary, wh ye severest execution of all ye penaltyes of ye lawes upon you.
Who are Rogues, Vagabonds, & Sturdy beggars.
1. All psons calling themselves syellars, going about begging.Subscribed & sealed ye day & yeare abovesd A. B. Minister. S. M. Constable or pishioner.
2. All sea faring men pretending losses of thre ships & goods upon the seas, going about, begging in ye Country, except those who shall have certificate from a Justice att the place of thr landing, who in thre direct way home, may aske relief of charitable psons.
3. All these psons going about the country either begging, or using any subtil craft, or unlawfull games, or playes, or feigning themselves to have knowledge in physiognomy, palmistry, or other like crafty sciences, or prytending they can tell fortunes, or destinyes, or such like fantasticall Imaginations.
4. All psons that utter themselves to be proctors, procurers, or collects for gaols, prisons, or hospitalls. All Fencers, bearwards, comonplayors, of interludes, wandering abroad.
5. All Juglers, pedlars, pettychapmen wandering about.
6. All wandering psons & comonlabrers, being psons of able body, esing loytering & refusing to worke for such reasonable wages as are taxed, or commonly given in such places or pts where such psons do or shall happen to dwell or abide, not having otherwise to maintaine themselves.
7. All psons delivered out of gaols, that beg for thr fees, or otherwise travell begging.
8. All psons that shall wander abroad begging, pretending losses by fire or otherwise.
9. All psons not being fellons wandering, and pretending themselves to bee Egyptians, or wandering in ye habit, forme, or attire of Counterfeite Egyptians.
10. All such psons as shall wander up and down ye country, to sell glasses:
The duty of a Constable & all other psons in appryhending and punishing these wh ye forfeiture for neglect :1. Every pson shall appryhend or cause to be appryhended such Rogues, Vagabonds, & Sturdy beggars, as he or they shall see or know to resort to thyre houses to beg, gather or receive almes, & him, her or them shall carry or cause to be carryed to ye next Constable upon paine to forfeit Ten shillings.
2. The Constables shall appryhend such Rogues coming into his or thire Jurisdiction, & being assisted wh ye advice of the minister of ye parish, or by the appointment of one Justice of ye peace, shall after such advice or appointmt, strip such a Rogue from ye middle upwd & whip him or her, till his or her body bee bloody-who he shall forthwli send fro pish to pish, by ye officers of every of ye same the next straight way to ye parish where hee or shee was borne, if the same may be knowne, by the partyes confession, or otherwise, if that bee not knowne, to ye pish where hec or shee dwelt last, before his or her punishmt ye space of one whole year, or (that not being knowne) where hee or shee passed last through unpunished.
When ye party is thus punished hee is to have a Testimoniall subscribed wh ye hand, & sealed wh ye scale, of ye Justice of peace, Minr, or Constable of ye parish, or any two of them in this or the like forme.Comit: Eb: Eastr. 16801 A b. Rogue, Vagabond, & Sturdy beggar, borne as he confesseth att ( ) in ye county of ( ) was this ( ) day of ( ) taken vagrant & begging att ( ) in the pts abovesd, & was there lawfully whipped thereat, & first appointed to goe ( ) the direct way by ( ) for whc passage there is allowed ( ) dayes, and no more at his pill.
The Constable's penalty in not punishing or conveighing Rogues is for every default 20sh:
The Constable is likewise to be assistant att two privy searches every yeare, for the finding out of all Rogues, Vagabonds & wandering Idle psons, & to bring yin before his Maj: Justices of ye peace att theirc meetings and there to give an account upon oath in writing, under ye minrs hand of ye pish, what Rogues, vagabonds & disorderly psons have been appryhended in ye same search, & since the last search, and how many have beene punished and sent to the house of Correction : which duty if he pforme not, hee may be further fined any sue under forty shillings.
2. Whatsoever ye Constable shall expend in conveighance of Rogues and returning them that being whippt are sent from towne to towne with passes, Hee wh ye Churchwardens & Overseers of ye poor & other Inhabitants, may lay a taxe or Indifferent rate upon all psons chargeable by the Statute of 43 of Qu: Eliz: concerning ye office & duty of Overseers of ye poore, whc rate being confirmed by two Justices of ye peace under theire hands and seales, hee bath power by theire warrant under theire hands and seales to collect & bring & thereout to reemburse himselfe.
You are also required to take ptecular notice off all travellrs & others, that Lodge in ye towne, whether in private houses suspected or in publick, and send his Maj: Justices an account of them, theire names, habits, psonages, colour of theire horses, & other pticular descriptions of them & the places of thre habitation, so as they may again bee found, when by his Maj: Justices of ye peace required.
This is a true Coppy according to Order May 1st '75. Transcribed May the last 1688. Robert Wetherell John Johnson.
Novbr 16th 1771 Pd to ye underwritten (out of Dr Johnson's forty shillings R. Ann) Ten shillings each
Pindarand Paid at Xtmes following (out of ye Interest of ye forty Pound Left by Mrs Elizabeth Johnson) nine shillings each
Russof
Bailey
PindarNovbr 1772 Pd Ten shillings
Cook
Elleker Wm
Pindar
Cook
Ellerker.
September the Second Ano Dom 1678
A True Register Recording the Names of all such persons as have been wound up and Buryed in woollen in our Parish of Cherry Burton according to an Act of Parliament in that case made and provided.The forme of an Affidavit made by the Relation and two wittnesses before one of his maiegtyes Justices of the peace.
We whose names are underwritten do hereby testifie to whom it may concerne that Joseph Wright late of Cherry Burton late deceased was not wrapt wound up nor buryed in any shirt shift nor sheet made of or mingled with flax : hemp : silke : haire : gold or silver nor in any other: then what was made of Sheeps wool onely, nor in any Coffin lined or faced with any cloth stuffe or any other thing whatsoever made of or mingled with flax hemp haire gold or silver: In Witness whereof we have hereunto set to our hands and scale this second day of Septemb. 1678.
John Simons Anne Ashton Mary Aston
Anne Baker did pennance March 26, 1682: publickly. The said Anne Baker layd a Foundation of the Towne Stocks which was sevenpounds payd by John Pindar of Hutton Cranswicke, who was supposed to have gott the said Anne Baker with child, & was Fined sevenpound by Mr John Estoffe, and Mr Toby Hodson, Justicers :
Memoranded, to prevent prescription or composition of the Kirkeleys Anno 1684. The Tythe hay of ye Kirkeleys was sold to Dr Johnson for eight shillings, and in the year 1685, the tythe of ye said hay alone, was sold for ten shillings, and in 1683 for ten shill, & for ten shillings, so the composition charged putts & makes voyd all pretences to Annuall composition, or prescription or custome.
John Johnson Rectr ibid.
1689 Febr: 24 now seene two suns about a quarter of an hour after its rising, the parelia appeared on the north east about 60 yards distance. Robert Barker Rector of Ch.
Cherry Burton Regester.
And the said John Simon : George Pease, Wm Richardson & Thomas Elfing upon view of the premises According to the best of theire Judgment, do value the dilapidations of the said Quire & Parsonage house, with the Appendages to amount to thirty pounds, to make the house secure for habitation, and in Testimony have hereunto subscribed.
William Richardson Thomas Elfing his + mark John Simon his + mark George Pease his + mark
William Nelson Henry Munby Fran: Kirby Fran: BakerMr Barker dyed at C. Burton 26 Septr 1774.
Rector of Silverton & RoweDevon& John Baker, Parish Clerkof C. Burton.
1703 Mr Robert Barker inducted into ye church & Rectory June ye 10th by me Robert Welburne Vic of Bp: Burton
Richard SouthickThe following entries appear inside the cover at the end of the book:-
Willm Burn
John Burn
Tho. Richardson 1707 pd x
Joshua Everingam
Ann Robson
Richard Huson
George Mutch
Henry Stork 1707 pd x
John Constable 1707 pd x
Willm Raley
Rob' Genison 1707 pd x
In Chancery Between Edmund Henry Barker Complainant and Robert Ray others Defendants Exhibited and deposed to by the Revd Henry Wm Hunter on his examination under a joint Commission for Examination of Witnesses in this Cause the 4 Day of May 1822 Before us
Jona: Gray
Samuell Cowling
Tho. Wm Tottie
John Brook
Also produced etc Benjamin Everingham another Witness 6th May 1822
Jona: Gray
Samuell Cowling
Tho: Wm Tottie
John Brook