The oldest Volume is a small folio of parchment (13 in. by 6 in.) of 45 leaves, bound very badly, time-stained and worn, in parts very badly kept, some of the leaves are loose, and some are quite illegible. It is divided into two parts, the first part (of thirty pages) begins with the year 1590 and extends to 1629: the second part begins with “Here followeth the register book for Ingleby, formemarke and Bretbye,” from 1580 to 1624.
The Second Volume consists of eighteen leaves of parchment (13 in. by 6 in.), unbound, the entries are very faded, only parts of them are legible, they extend from 1629 to 1655.
The Third Volume has twenty-six leaves (11½ in. by 5½ in.). The entries are very legible, and extend from 1655 to 1670.
December yᵉ 31, 1655.
Geo: Roades yᵉ day & yeare above written approved & sworne Register for yᵉ parrish of Repton in yᵉ County of Derby
By me James Abney.
THE FOLLOWING ENTRIES OCCUR.
| 1595 | Milton. Wᵐ Alt who was drowned buried yᵉ 26 of ffebruarie. |
| 1604 | William a poor child wh died in the Church Porch buried
yᵉ 4th of June. |
| 1610 | Mʳᵉˢ Jane Thacker daughter of Mʳ Gilbert Thacker Esquyer
buryed the Xᵗʰ of January Aᵒ Dmi 1610. |
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“Vixit Jana deo, vivet pia Jana supernis,
Esto Panōphæo gratia grata Iovi.”
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| 1612 | Mʳ Gilbert Thacker Esquyer buryed the X of July. |
| 1613 | John Wayte churchⁿ entered the XXVI of Aprill. |
| 1638 | Philip yᵉ sonne of Mʳ Haughton & Lady Sarah his wife
was bapᵗ at Bratby. March 30. |
| 1638 | The lady Jane Burdit wife of Sⁱʳ Thomas Burdit buryed the
24ᵗʰ of March. |
| 1640 | Robert the sonne of Mʳ Francis Burdet of Formark Esquiour
was borne the 11ᵗʰ day of January and baptized the 4ᵗʰ day of
February 1640. |
| 1647 | William the son of Will Bull bap about Candlemas. |
| 1648 | John Wilkinson of Englebye was bur Nov 4. Recᵈ 6ˢ/8ᵈ for the grave. |
| 1650 | Godfrey Thacker sen burᵈ March 26ᵗʰ. |
| 1652 | Old Ashe of Milton bur Oct 12. |
| 1657 | Samuel yᵉ son of Thomas Shaw yᵉ younger bap 28 June. |
| (He became the eminent Nonconformist Divine &c.) |
| 1657 | A tabler at Tho Bramly bur Aug: |
| (Tabler, a pupil of Repton School who lodged or tabled
in the village). |
| 1658 | Yᵉ foole at Anchorchurch bur Aprill 19. |
| 1658 | James a poore man dyed at Bretby Manner was bur May 20. |
| 1660 | A ladd of Nuball’s of Engleby bur yᵉ same day Jan: 2. |
| 1664 | Mʳ Thomas Whitehead was bur Oct 17. |
| (1ˢᵗ Ussher of Repton School.) |
| 1666 | Thoˢ Rathban (Rathbone) the Under School-master was bur Nov 30. |
| 1667 | Mʳ William Ullock the Head Schoolmaster of Repton School died May
the 13ᵒ and was buried in the Chancel May the 15ᵒ. |
| Collected at Repton (for reliefe of yᵉ inhabitants of Soulbay in
yᵉ County of Suffolk yᵗ suffered by fire) October yᵉ 30 1659 the sume
of Tenn shillings and eight pence. |
| Geo: Roades, Pastor. |
| Several similar collections, “for the fire att Wytham Church,
Sussex, the sume of 3s. 6d.” |
| Sepᵗ 4 1664 | “Towards the repairs of the church at Basing in the county of
Southampton 4s. 3d.” |
| Feb. 19 1664 | “For the inhabitants of Cromer at Shipden yᵉ sume of four shillings
five pence.” |
| “For two widdows that came with a letter of request viz: Mʳˢ Elizabeth
Benningfield and Mʳˢ Mary Berry the sum of 3s. 4d.” |
| Ditto for Mʳˢ Calligane 3s. 2d. |
| Sepʳ 23 1660 | “For a fire att Willinghal Staffordshire yᵉ sum of 13/s.” |
| Geo: Roades, Minister.
John Stone, Churchwardens.
his ✠ mark. |