from some kind lister ~~~ Edna - Ottawa >>> ... for the institution of Parish Registers. "In the name of God Amen. By the authorite and comission of the most excellent Prince Henry by the Grace of God Kynge of Englande and of France, defensor of the faithe Lorde of Irelande, and in erthe supreme hedd undre Christ of the Church of Englande, I Thomas lorde Cromwell, lorde privie seall, Vicegerent within this realme, do for the avancement of the trewe honor of almighty God, encrease of vertu and discharge of the kynges majestic, give and exhibite unto you theise injunctions folowing, to be kept observed and fulfilled upon the paynes hereafter declared. . . . That you and every parson vicare or curate within this diocese shall for every churche kepe one boke or registere wherein ye shall write the day and yere of every weddyng christenyng and buryeng made within yor parishe for your tyme, and so every man succeed- yng you lykewise. And shall there insert every persons name that shalbe so weddid christened or buried. And for the sauff kepinge of the same boke the parishe shalbe bonde to provide of these comen charges one sure coffer with twoo lockes and keys wherof the one to remayne with you, and the other with the said wardens, wherein the saide boke shalbe laide upp. Whiche boke ye shall every Sonday take furthe and in the presence of the said wardens or one of them write and recorde in the same all the weddinges christenynges and buryenges made the hole weke before. And that done to lay upp the boke in the said coffer as afore. And for every tyme that the same shalbe omytted the partie that shalbe in the faulte therof shall forfett to the saide churche iiis iiiid to be emploied on the reparation of the same churche. . . . " 5th September 1538