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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
The original object of the present communication was to present to the Fellows some account of a remarkable Book of Records preserved in the parish church of St. Stephen's, Coleman Street, containing, among other interesting particulars, the original constitution under which the parish was governed.
As, however, some other of the parish books presented features of exceptional historical interest, I have taken leave to add, by way of illustration to the paper, some particulars relating to the parish and its inhabitants, gathered from its books.
page 28 note a “A true Catalogue, or account of the several places, &c, by whom Richard Cromwell was proclaimed Lord Protector.” There is no date, place, or name of printer. At the foot of the first page there is this description: “Printed in the first year of the ‘English Armies ’ small or scarce beginning to return from their almost six years great apostacy.’ It was apparently printed in London 1659 (pp. 12 and 13).
page 28 note b “England's Confusion, written by one of the few Englishmen that are left in England.” London, 1659 (p. 9).
page 29 note a “An exact and impartial account of the Indictment Trial of the 29 Regicides.” London, 1660.
page 34 note a This and the next seven lines are written in a different handwriting, the date of it being no doubt 1469.
page 37 note a This item, though written in the same handwriting as the other entries under this head, was added in a different ink. Barly here mentioned was churchwarden of the parish, his name occurs in other places.
page 38 note a The whole of paragraph L is struck through with the pen.
page 47 note a The d and b in this word are joined together in a curious manner which cannot be represented in the type.
page 49 note a This is in a different handwriting.
page 49 note b The “sexton's deutie ” ends abruptly here at the bottom of page 148, but there is nothing to indicate that it is incomplete.
page 50 note a This is in the same handwriting as the constitution for choosing churchwardens.
page 51 note a The words between * * are doubtful, being written over an erasure, but they are believed to be correct.
page 53 note a The words within brackets have been erased but are still legible.
page 53 note b This is how the word is written in the MS.
page 55 note a Sic in MS. for “deliberenter.”
page 58 note a The passage between * * is underlined, and a later hand has noted in the margin:—Hoc probatur falsum per diversa recorda, quorum copia extant.
page 58 note b Later marginal note:—Porcio vicarii Sancti Stephani.
page 57 note a Johẽns MS.
