The Parish Registers of Thomas Crockford 1561-1633 Contributor(s): Chandler, John (Editor), Newbury, Christpher (Translator), Hobbs, Steven (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0901333506 ISBN-13: 9780901333506 Publisher: Hobnob Press OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2020 |
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BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) - History | Europe - Great Britain - Stuart Era (1603-1714) - Religion | Christianity - History |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.25 lbs) 298 pages |
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Publisher Description: Thomas Crockford (1580-1634) came to Wiltshire in 1603 as schoolmaster at Stockton, and from 1613 until his death was vicar of Fisherton Delamere. For much of this time he assisted his neighbours the rectors of Wylye and Stockton, and began new registers for each of these three adjacent chalkland parishes in the Wylye valley of south Wiltshire. He assiduously collected and copied information from earlier registers and then continued them, for each parish, until shortly before his death. In doing this he was following an instruction of 1598, as many clergy did at the time, but what makes his registers unusual, if not unique, is the manner in which he set about his task. |