A Transcript of the First Volume, of the Parish Register of Chesham, in the Country of Bickingham (Classic Reprint): With Introductory Notes, Appendices, and Index - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from A Transcript of the First Volume, of the Parish Register of Chesham, in the Country of Bickingham

It is remarkable that a practice so obviously useful, both politically and socially, as public registration of births, deaths and marriages, should ever have been suffered to die out in any organized community in which it had once been established. Yet, though such registration was more or less Observed in some form by most of the civilized nations of antiquity, nothing of the kind seems to have existed in Europe during the middle ages. The monastic records, which have sometimes been spoken of as analogous, were of a private rather than a public character, and related mostly to members Of the respective orders, to their benefactors, tenants and servants, and to matters connected with thei estates.

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