[8] The names are spelt precisely as they stand in the
document itself.

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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, notwithstanding Sir Roger Twisden, Knt
and Baronett and Dame Isabella his wife, being both very sick
and weake, in my judgement and opinion [are] to be tolerated
for the eating of flesh.

FRANCISC. WORRALL, Vicar.

A similar entry occurs for the three following years.