Note 1327 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE

Burn, Parish Registers, 40; cf. Waters, Parish Registers of England, 10, 11.

In some books many entries are lacking, or there are breaks for several years together. Often the record is so carelessly made as to be of little value, even when not entirely illegible. Thus at St. Ewe, the "parishioners refusing to allow 5s. per annum for keeping a register, there was none kept for the years 1675-6-7," except two entries: Burn, op. cit., 41. The clerk of Plungar, Leicestershire, made use of the registration book for wrapping paper; and Burn gives many other similar illustrations in his unique volume: ibid., 41 ff.