For similar certificates see Stavert, Parish Register of Burnsall-in-Craven, 88; Cowper, The Booke of Register of the Parish of St. Peter in Canterbury, 89; and Waters, Parish Registers in England, 14.
[1319] The fees for registration authorized are for each marriage 12d.; publication and certificate of marriage, 12d.; each birth or death, 4d.; and no charge in case of persons living by alms.
[1320] The parish register of Boston, Lincolnshire, shows "that during the years 1656, 1657, and 1658 respectively the number of marriages proclaimed in the market-place were 102, 104, and 108, and of those announced in the church, 48, 31, 52."—Wood, The Wedding Day, 278, 279.
[1321] The English clerk of the peace keeps the records of the quarter sessions and in a measure corresponds to the county clerk in the United States; cf. Howard, Local Const. Hist., I, 315.
[1322] Burn, Parish Registers, 52.
[1323] Waters, Parish Registers of England, 17.
[1324] The registration for the period of the act is very full in Hoveden, The Register Booke ... of the Cath. and Met. Church of Christe of Cant., 58, 59; Margerison, The Registers of the Parish Church of Calverly, II, 117-24; Stavert, The Parish Register of Burnsall-in-Craven, 87-104. In Phillimore's Gloustershire Parish Registers, I, 9, there are no entries for 1653-54 and for several years before, while they are relatively full thereafter. Bulwer's Parish Registers of St. Martin-cum-Gregory in the City of York, II, 78-87, have a full record both before and after 1660. The same is true of Cowper's Booke of Register of the Parish of St. Peter in Canterbury, 89-92, for the period 1640-60; while before 1640 there are fewer entries, and after 1660 a much less complete record. In Sanders's Registers of Eastham, Cheshire, 75-85, the record begins in 1654 after an interval of ten years; but his Registers of Bebington, County Chester, 129, show a blank for the years 1654-56. Radcliffe's Registers of St. Chad, Saddlworth, supplement, 450-53, 444-49; and the Register Booke of Inglebye iuxta Grenhow, 165-69, are full and very interesting. Compare the other registers named in Bibliographical Note X, showing a few entries each year.
[1325] John Graunt, Natural and Political Observations (3d ed., Oxford, 1665), 158, 159 (Appendix). For calling my attention to this passage I am indebted to the kindness of Professor Charles H. Hull. In the "Introduction" to his edition of Petty's Economic Writings (Cambridge, 1899), I, xxxiv ff., lxxv ff., lxxx ff., may be found an account of Graunt's life and works.
[1326] "The Table of the Parish of Tiverton" (Graunt, Natural and Political Observations, 158, 159):
| Christened | Buried | ||||||
| Years | Weddings | ||||||
| M. | F. | Both | M. | F. | Both | ||
| 1650 | 9 | 66 | 79 | 145 | 7 | 9 | 16 |
| 1651 | 9 | 50 | 63 | 113 | 5 | 10 | 15 |
| 1652 | 9 | 80 | 73 | 153 | 48 | 51 | 99 |
| 1653 | 21 | 89 | 219 | *208 | 47 | 78 | 125 |
| 1654 | 108 | 105 | 101 | 206 | 72 | 68 | 140 |
| 1655 | 140 | 87 | 104 | 191 | 87 | 114 | 201 |
| 1656 | 109 | 107 | 90 | 197 | 56 | 86 | 142 |
| 1657 | 102 | 94 | 101 | 195 | 67 | 59 | 126 |
| 1658 | 60 | 70 | 83 | 153 | 77 | 85 | 162 |
| 1659 | 37 | 77 | 78 | 155 | 72 | 80 | 152 |
| 604 | 815 | 891 | 1716 | 538 | 640 | 1178 | |
| 1660 | 27 | 61 | 68 | 129 | 70 | 69 | 139 |
| 1661 | 38 | 83 | 93 | 176 | 73 | 85 | 158 |
| 1662 | 36 | 73 | 56 | 129 | 91 | 95 | 186 |
| 1663 | 35 | 68 | 64 | 132 | 72 | 74 | 146 |
| 1664 | 41 | 68 | 72 | 140 | 98 | 114 | 212 |
| 177 | 353 | 353 | 706 | 404 | 437 | 841 | |
| * Error in the original. | |||||||