Excerpt from The Registers of the Parish Church of Stokesley, Co. York, 1571-1750

April, 1687. Down to the end of June, 1660, Births are registered instead of Baptisms.

Volume III, re-bound in paper-covered boards like the preceding one, is 13 inches in length by 6 inches in breadth, and carries on the monthly records of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, placed intermixedly together, from March, 1687, to April, 1723. Two pages at the end are occupied by a list of collections made in Stokesley Church in response to Briefs issued from 1700 to 1707.

Volume IV retains its original binding of sheep-covered boards, but the original clasps have almost entirely disappeared. It measures 11 - 5 by 7k inches, and has 52 parchment leaves, on which the records are carried on from April, 1723, to March, 174g. From 1725 onwards the Baptisms, Marriages and Burials are recorded in separate lists, but the several lists for each year are placed together. Inside the front cover are some memoranda respecting persons excommunicated, etc., and five pages at the end of the Volume are occupied by a Terrier of Church Property.

Volume V is a parchment book bound in sheep-covered boards, with 102 leaves, and measuring 15 by 9 inches. It contains the records of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials from April, 1748, to November, 1792. The entries now printed occupy the first 11 pages.

These Registers are on the whole in a fairly good state of preservation. The transcribed portion at the beginning of the first Register is very well written, and easily readable. But at more than one period Stokesley was unfortunate in the choice of its scribe for making these entries, as might be inferred even from an examination of the erratic spellings in the printed Register. And not only have many entries been badly made originally, but some have been so far obliterated by subsequent usage of the Registers that the recovery of certain of the entries now printed has only been accomplished by patient study with lenses of different powers, while some few have baffled all attempts at decipherment.

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