Baptisms.

1559. William Hitchcock was baptized the 19th day of Februarie. (This is the first registered.)
1576. Gabriel, the son of Thomas Browne, Parson, 3rd April.
1593. Elizabeth, filia Johis. Stanhope, armi. and Margaritæ uxoris ejus, 14th August (afterwards married to Sir Lionel Talmash.)
1594. Margaret Stanley, 17th April.
1595. Carolus filius Johs. Stanhope, armi. April 27. (afterwards second Lord Stanhope.)
1597. Charles, a boy, by estimacon x or xii yeares old, brought by Sir Walter Rawlie from Guiana, Feb. 13.
1599. William, the sonne of Sir Arthur Gorge, Kt., 31st May.
1600. Timoleon, sonne of Sir Arthur Gorge, and Lady Elizabeth, his wife, baptized primo Octobris.
1612. Frances, the daughter of Sir Walter Alston, Knight, 26th April.
1613. Fielde, a poor man child, found in the east field of Chelsey, 13th October.
1639. Chelsey, a child born in the west fields, was baptized Feb. 1.

The remaining baptismal entries, and some of those omitted, include the sons or daughters of the Earl of Nottingham, Lord Cranfield, Earl of Lincolne, Sir John Danvers, Sir G. Wentworth, Lord Commissioner Whitelocke, Charles Cheyne, Esq., Charles Stanley, Esq., Sir Henry Herbert, Earl of Lindsey, &c.