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J. Whitehead & Son, Printers, Alfred Street, Boar Lane, Leeds.

The Parish Register

OF

Hartsbead,

IN THE

COUNTY OF YORK,

1612-1812.

TRANSCRIBED AND EDITED BY

EDITH B. ARMYTAGE.

PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR

THE YORKSHIRE PARISH REGISTER SOCIETY.

1903.

PREFACE.

The Registers printed in the following pages are those of the Parish of Hartshead, anciently called Hertesheved or Hartsheadcum-Clifton. It is a chapelry within the Parish of Dewsbury, and comprises the two townships of Hartshead and Clifton, which according to the Ordnance Survey contains 3,070 acres, and had in 1811 a population of 1,728, increased in 1901 to 3,452 persons.

The entries up to 1813 are contained in three volumes.

The first volume, containing baptisms, marriages and burials intermixed, is 13 inches long by 8 inches wide, the pages of the same being partly 12 by 7, and partly 11 by 7. It was much dilapidated, but fortunately was thoroughly restored in 1811. It is bound in full Russia leather, and inscribed on the side:

THE REGISTER OF THE PARISH OF HARTSHEAD. VOLUME I.

It contains a title-page, as follows:--

THE

REGISTER

OF THE

PAROCHIAL CHAPEL

OF

HARTSHEAD,

Anciently written Herteshevet.
Volume I.

Containing Baptisms, Marriages and Burials from the 4th May, 1612, to 30th Decemr, 1692, inclusive. Collated and Prepared for re-binding by

WILLIAM RADCLYFFE,

Of Darley Hall in this County, Esquere.
Rouge Croix Persuivant of Arms.

Re-bound at his Expence and under his immediate inspection in the
College of Arms, London.

1811.

which is beautifully printed by hand and accompanied by drawings of arms, a photograph of which forms the frontispiece of this volume.

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There is a transcript of this first volume, made apparently about 1760, in which the spelling of the names and places is much modernised. The original spelling has, however, been adhered to, and the proofs corrected therewith. This transcript is on paper 12 by 8 inches, and contains 72 pages in double columns, ruled in red ink. It was re-bound in 1882 and labelled:--

COPY OF REGISTER OF CHRISTENINGS, MARRIAGES AND BURIALS, MAY, 1612, TO OCTOBER, 1692.

The original Register is in the same handwriting from the beginning in May, 1612, to November, 1649. There is another hand. to the end of March, 1657-8, and various hands to the end of the book in December, 1692.

The second volume is 19 inches long by 7 inches wide, bound in full calf, rough side out, with a red label on the side lettered in gold:-

ST. PETER'S CHURCH,

HARTSHEAD.

REGISTER OF BAPTISMS, APRIL, 1692, TO MARCH, 1798. MARRIAGES, August, 1692, TO MARCH, 1798.

BURIALS, APRIL, 1692, TO MARCH, 1798.

It contains 282 pages in good preservation, having been re-bound in its own cover and repaired in 1882.

The third volume is bound in full calf. It is 22 inches long by 10 inches wide, and has a label on the side:

ST. PETER'S CHURCH,

HARTSHEAD.

REGISTER OF BAPTISMS, MARCH, 1798, TO DEC., 1812.
MARRIAGES, JAN., 1798, TO DEC., 1812.

BURIALS, MARCH, 1798, TO DEC., 1812.

It contains several pages of spare paper, and is in excellent preservation. The book has been divided into three sections. The baptisms are folioed in pencil 1 to 27, marriages 28 to 57, and burials 58 to 73. It was repaired and re-bound in its own cover in 1882.

There is no mention of the appointment of a "Register" under the Act of 1653, nor is there any indication that there was any change in the usual method of keeping the Register during the period 1653-1660.

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