Welsh Journals

DEANERY OF POOL. BERRIEW. I. REGISTERS (kept in the safe in the Church):— 1596-1667. Parchment, complete for 1596-1628, has one entry each year for 1635, 1647, 1650, 1660, 1674; a Welsh Englyn in 1609; Churchwardens' accounts, 1638 and 1639. Repairs to Church and Bells re-cast, 1638. 1683-1709. Parchment. In 1695 this heading- The Register Book of the Parish of Beriew, as it is appointed by a Act of Parliament entituled an Act for Granting to his Matie Duties upon Buryings, Christenings Weddings, Widdow" & Batchelors, &c, for carrying on the Warr agt ffrance with vigour and to continue for five years. There is a List of Legacies to the Parish, and the Si quis of Jenkin Williams of this parish, 1700; "Si quis" of Richard Morris of St. John's College, Oxford, 1701 (son of R. of Berriew), Vicar of Berriew, 1711. 1709-1749. Parchment. 1753-1789. Baptisms and Burials. 1789-1812. Baptisms only, 1813-1842; 1842-1888; 1888— Marriages only, 1754—1779; 1779—1812; 1813—1837; 1837- Burials only, 1813—1864 1864- There is also a Paper List of Baptisms and Burials, 1811 —1833; but entered in their proper places in the respective Registers. Transcripts at St. Asaph, 1662; 1663; 1665-1854, and so supplying the gaps here, 1667-1683, and 1749— 1753. II. PLATE—(a) At the Parish Church:- Flagon, Presented by Edmund Henry Lyon to Berriew Church 1846." I.H.S. within a glory, date-letter 1838-9, height #ILL e#in.