Medway Council Heritage Services catalogues
  • Title
    Composite register: baptisms, 1559-1758 (not foliated); burials, 1559-1758 (ff.1-84); marriages, 1559-1753 (ff.85-101)
  • Reference
    P362/1/1
  • Date
    1559-1758
  • Level of description
    file
  • Extent
    1 volume
  • Scope and content
    Inserted between baptisms and burials are: 'Extract of Lady Swan's Will made Feb. 4th 1721', and a copy of the will of John Beard. At f.102 is a 'Terrier of the Glebe Lands, Houses, Edifices, gardens, Meadows, Orchards belonging to the parsonage of Swanscombe' for the Bishop's visitation, 23 July 1757. At f.103 is a note dated 7 August 1758: "The Pew in the chancel built for Mrs Coles is not intended to be appropriated to the house in which she lives longer than during the pleasure of the incumbent."
  • Physical description
    Parchment badly shrunken and discoloured by heat and water. Illegible in many places.
  • Digitised version