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Excerpt from The Parish Registers of St. Antholin, Budge Row, London: Containing the Marriages, Baptisms, and Burials From 1538 to 1754; And of St. John Baptist on Wallbrook, London, Containing the Baptisms and Burials From 1682 to 1754 In 1874 the demolition of St. Antholin was determined and carried out, and it was annexed to St. Mary Aldermary, the registers of which church form the fifth volume of this series. The entries in this volume are full of interest, though there are few to call for special notice. The plague of 1625 seems to have added considerably to the number of deaths, and from August 1666 to the end of 1667 no entries were made, owing, no doubt, to the great fire. From 1538 to 1724 the registers of births, marriages, and burials have all been entered together, and in a note following an entry of November the 8th, 1724, it is stated from this time all births and burials belonging to St. John Baptist's parish are registred in ye proper register of that parish. From 1724 to the end of the register of St. Antholin, it will be observed that the marriages are separated from the births and burials; the two latter, however, continue to be entered together. It will be seen, therefore, that previous to 1724 many of the entries Of St. John Baptist parish occur in the St. Antholin register, though from the following pages it is clear that the registers of St. John Baptist were in existence from 1682. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.