The Church of St Leonard, Padiham in the County of -- Lancashire --

Baptisms at St Leonard
in the Parish of Padiham
Baptisms recorded in the Register for 1573 - 1653
Baptisms for 1573 - 1599

There are no entries for 1623 Page 182 is blank - presumably in case they could fill it all in. Below is a note from the Curate found at the bottom of Page 82]

25 Mar 1625 - Mem that the Register Booke, being here, (before & after 1624) taken out of the Church without my privity, by the Ch-Wardens & delivered to Robert Roe, to write out a Coppy of the last yeres Register, for the Synode, (whether also they sent it without my knowledge) was not brought againe unto me (though I diverse times spake of it even publickly) till after the Nativity last. Whereby it came to passe that no notice was taken at all of any either bapt or buryed, for the space of a moneth at least no nor all the yere after, save as I could my selfe, in a private booke, & therefore as the last yere, they required not my hand neither can they have it this yere: for that I cannot affirme it to be a perfect Register per me Gualteru Borset,

[Another note from a later Incumbent dated 1642 written at the bottom of Page 224 and followed by a torn blank page 225 [page 227 is also blank] - page 226 is only half a page [on the back of page 225]]

How to account for this shameful neglect, or violation, of the Registers, in a chasm of two years and a half, I know not J Adamson Incumbent 1799 At first sight, it might seem, that the three leaves, which have been cut out immediately succeeding this, had contained the connection, but the four Registers in the part of a leaf now extant, & immediately ensuing, namely in the year 1644, one of which is a Record of the Baptism of the Registrar's own child, will not allow of this conjecture. For, in the first place, why is this leaf on which I now write, not inscribed and filled up as usual to the very bottom? And secondly why is not the connection from 1644 to Jul 1645, which is again in Mr. Breres' own hand kept up? Mr Breares is styled "Ministar of Padiham 25 Jul 1647 "

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