EXTRACTS FROM PARISH REGISTERS OF EAST PECKHAM, KENT

Sir,--In my commonplace book I find the following notes, being extracts from the ancient Registers of East Peckham Church, Kent, which have never (I believe) been published, and which may perhaps be of service to the historian or antiquary. 1637. This yeare was the Communion-table rayled in by the appointment of Dr. Ryves, Dean of Shorham {42} Deanery, and Chancellor to the most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, who commanded this uniformity to be general throughout the kingdom. 1638. This time of lent being to be kept holy by fasting and abstinence from flesh, no…