It is recorded shortly after this
“Anno Salvatoris 1703/4, Annæque Angliæ Reginæ Beatissimæ Regni Secundo. Collected to a Breef for the relief of our persecuted Protestant Brethren of the principality of Orange the sum of five and thirty shillings and eight pence.”
Among family names in this early book are Wing, Jude, Prophet, Makepeace, Nason, Sambache, Vinsen, Leah, Fredwell.
In the same box is now preserved the earliest register of what was formerly a separate parish, Pillerton Priors. It lacks its outer cover, and apparently the earlier slip has vanished. It begins abruptly with “Criseninges, 1604,” though on later pages there are marriages and burials from 1594. Both parishes seem to have been in the same cure at this date. “Ro: Hale” signs both registers at the foot of each page. A few entries are of some philological or genealogical interest:
1609. Athalia, the daughter of William Smith and Luci his wife, was baptized the 25th day of March.
1610. Edythe, the daughter of Richard Griffyn and Jane his wief, was baptized the 22nd June.
1621. Moses, the son of Abraham Neale, baptized 11th Nov.
1630. Athalia, ye daughter of William Symkins and Susanna his wife, was baptized the 12th day of Dec.
1631. Harma, the daughter of Abraham Neale, baptized 13th Nov.
1633. Alva, the daughter of William Reading, baptized 19th May.