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