Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Warsop Parish Registers: With Notes and Illustrations
In consequence of this injunction parish registers began to be kept very generally; and there are still some eight hundred parish registers which date from this period. Of these about forty, however, contain entries prior to 1538. The Registers of the neighbouring parishes of Perlethorpe and Carburton, for instance, begin in 1528, and contain one or two entries for each succeeding year down to 1538.
The injunction was repeated in more vigorous terms on the accession of Queen Elizabeth, in 1558; but not being regularly observed, it was ordained in the following year that parch ment register books should be purchased at the expense of every parish, and that all names should be transcribed in them from the older books which were mostly of paper. Hence it happens that so many parish registers, like those of Mansfield, begin with the year 1559.
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