Order Royal
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Extract from the order of months 'apvril thousand six hundred sixty seven and twenty of the title deed which lie in evidence vocalle or literally.
On what should follow the honorable priests to report their acts batistaires registers, marriages and burials.
Art: VIII
Chasque for deeds will be year two for the writing of registers of baptisms, marriages and burials in every one parish, whose layers and coats will be initialed by the first and last by the royal judge of the place or is esglize scituée, one of which will remain in minutes and are hands of the priest or vicar and the other will be worn in the office of royal judge to serve as big, which two records will be provided annually to the cost of the factory before the final December of every one year, to begin to save them by the pastor or the priest marriages baptisms & burials from the January 1, following up last December inclusive.
Art: In Article IX
of baptisms will deed reference to the day birth and be named the child, the father and mother, the sponsor & the godmother, and marriages will be the names and nicknames, ages, and residences of those who marry, whether they are children family, guardianship, trusteeship or power of another `witness thereof and attend four who declare on the register if Paraná, what cost and in what degree, and in articles Graves will deed reference to the day of death.
Art: The X
baptisms, marriages and burials will be a Mesme register in the order of days, leaving no white out as quickly and they have deeds they Este be signed and writings, to wit the baptisms by the father if he is present and by sponsor & sponsor, and marriage certificates for those married and four of those who have attended the burial of two of the closest amys appearing persons or who have witnessed the convoy, and if none of them scavent sign they will declare this and arrested by the pastor or priest that will deed reference.
Art: XI will be held on
priests or vicars Sepmaine six years expired after every one to bring or send the heavy security and the minute book signed & certified true of them in the office of royal judge who will Cott & initialed, and the clerk will be required to receive and make reference to the day he has made and will Este discharge after néantmoings that fat will be collated estée minute which will remain the pastor or curate and that the clerk will be crossed out in one and the other all white sheets that remain, without letout fraict which large registry will be kept by the clerk to use them.
Art: XIII
enjoin all priests or vicars, churchwardens, and other managers custodes works and factories, to masters and officers, presidents and senior ecclesiastical hospital and other places to or there will have baptisms, marriages and burials, every one to his Esgard meet all the above, barely there Estre compelled, by the ecclesiastical Saisy their time and paine of twenty pounds of almonds against the churchwardens or others lay on their behalf.
In the year 1670 the parish register of St Kitts in-Brionnais online archive of 71 pages 124-125/145.