Newscuttings TAX ON BAPTISMS
Author: Ruth Donaldson-Hudson
Description: Cheswardine, Shropshire Parish Register shows "the first buryall payable" in 1695 to the Crown and child's birth in 1706. Therefore same Act of Parliament and possibly registration fee rather than a charge for the sacraments.
Publisher: The Times
Format: Newscutting
Primary Reference: 300000364
Last import: January 27, 2023