Parish Registers

1. Preface to these extracts
   
2. What becomes of Parish Registers - 1857
3. What becomes of Parish Registers - 1868
4. Parish Burial Registers - Common Quality
5. Burying in Linen

Dorset Extracts

1. Bow and Arrow Castle, Portland
   
2. Dorset Folk-lore - Chesilborne
   
3. Advert for a Curate for Burton Bradstock and Shepton Gorge
   
4. Danish Invaders
   
5. Epitaph to William Lewis, Smuggler, of Wyke Regis
   
6. Figures cut on Hill Sides
   
7. Fish Tanks from Weymouth
   
8. Anthony Ashley Cooper - Governor of Weymouth
   
9. Gravestones and Church Repairs - Lyme Regis
10. Giles Green, M.P., and Captain Plunkett of Dorset
11. Harissers
    
12. Anthony Henley - M.P. for Weymouth
    
13. James Whittaker - Alicia Lisle
    
14. Major Heane - Governor of Weymouth
    
15. Capture of Monmouth - Woodlands, Horton, Dorset
    
16. Nicholas Gibbon, D.D. - Corfe Castle
    
17. Portland Island - Intermarriages
    
18. Portrait of Shakspeare
19. Sea Bathing
20. Sea Kale
21. Shaston
22. Eleanor Sheldon - Mohun
23. Sir John Coventry, K.B. Weymouth M.P.
24. Staple
    
25. The Portlanders
26. Vessels sailing from UK to N America - 17th Century
27. The Unexpected Visit of Archduke Philip the Beau to Weymouth - 1506
28. Weymouth Mayor
29. Letter from Sir C Wren - to Portland re purchase of stone for St Paul's Cathedral

Genealogy Snippets

1. Burial In Unconsecrated Ground
   
2. Burying in Linen
   
3. Christian Captives of the Barbary pirates
   
4. Churchyards and their uses
   
5. Use of Latin in Public Documents
6. North Sides of Churchyards - Unconsecrated
7. 18th Century Coach Travel - Frome - London
8. Hiring of Servants

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