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Parochial afterwards were, by the Act 3 and 4 Vict. Cap. 92, specially passed for that purpose.

Turning, however, more particularly to these Registers, a summary and short account of which is given in these pages, we notice first that of the seventy-eight deposited in 1840 at Somer set House, no less than seventy are from the Northern District, then under the jurisdiction of Bishop Briggs, and that of these, forty-five are from Yorkshire, twelve from Durham, ten from Northumberland, and one each from the counties of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire. Here again, it is worthy of notice, that out of the nearly two hundred missions then existing in this diocese, of which about fifty-four were in Yorkshire, and nearly ninety in Lancashire, only one register, - that, viz., of St. Alban's, Blackburn - was parted with from the last-named county to the registrar-general. Catholic Lancashire, then, was very evidently loth to give up her Records of the past. Of the remaining eight registers, two in Hampshire and Hertfordshire are from the London District, five from the Midland, and one only is from the Western District, that, namely, of Lulworth Castle. We may therefore assume that in 1840 it was left to the option of each individual priest to forward his register, or not, according to his discretion, and that in 1857 it was decided that no more were to be sent at all.

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On the 13th of September, 1836, a Royal Commission was issued for the purpose of enquiring "into the state, custody, and authenticity of any such Records of Births or Baptisms, Deaths or Burials, and Marriages lawfully solemnized," as had been formerly kept in England and Wales, "other than the Parochial Registers;" as also for enquiring what measures could be adopted for their collection, arrangement, and final deposit within the office of the Registrar-General.

On the 26th of October, in the following year, this Commission was renewed, and a Secretary appointed, who, by letters addressed to dissenting ministers and others having custody of such Registers, acquainted them with the existence and object of the Commission itself, while, - what is more to our purpose, - the Commissioners, in their Report, dated 18 June, 1838, add that "communications to a similar effect were also addressed to the prelates of the Roman Catholic Church." These prelates at this time were the Rt. Revv. Peter Augustine Baines, John Briggs, Thomas Griffiths, and Thomas Walsh, respectively Vicars Apostolic of the Western, Northern, London and Midland Districts.

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