The Publications OF The Yorkshire Parish Register Society, Leeds VOL. XV. Issued to Subscribers for the year 1903. ju The Registers OF THE Parish Church OF Cherry Burton, Co. YORK. 1561-1740. TRANSCRIBED AND EDITED BY ARTHUR T. WINN, M.A., Of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR THE YORKSHIRE PARISH REGISTER SOCIETY. 1903. PREFACE. THE REGISTERS of the Parish Church of Cherry Burton are contained in several books. The present volume contains the first and second books. The first book contains entries dating from 1561, copied from an older Register (which unfortunately seems to have been lost), as appears from the following heading at the beginning of the book:"The Register Booke of North Burton, Alias Cherry Burton. "Transcribed according to the olde Booke, Anno Dom. 1647, Regis "Caroli xxiii." On the last page we read: "This Register booke was belonging "to Mr. Thomas Micclethwayt, & was most of it transcribed out of "ye old Register by Nicholas Pearson," &c. &c., but it is evident, by the various styles of handwriting, that Nicholas Pearson transcribed only part. The book measures 12 by 7 inches, and is bound in rough leather and stamped CHERRY BURTON, 1647. It consists of 52 parchment leaves, numbered; about six and a half pages are blank, and part of the last leaf has been removed. Three pages are in a very dilapidated condition, the ink having almost disappeared, but the impression of the ink has remained, and with the aid of a magnifying glass much has been deciphered. It will be noticed that the Baptisms between 1604-1612 are missing. |