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1642 - The  commencement  of  civil war.  This had  considerable  effect  on
                                     the  keeping  of  Registers  until  1660. Many  early  records  lost  or
                                     dest royed.
                               1644 - Earliest  Presbyterian  and  Independent  (Congregational)  Registers.
                              1647 - Earliest date Cor  Baptist Registers.
                              1649 - Records of  about 6,600 English  Parishes  existing back to this date
                                     or earlier.
                                     Commencement  of  Commonwealth  period,  many  Parish  incum-
                                     bents  disappeared.
                              1653 - Tntroduction of  civil  commission  to  grant  probates.  These records
                                     absorbed  into  the  Prerogative  Court of  Canterbury  in  London.
                              1654 - Solemnisation  of  marriages  restricted  to  Justices  of  the  Peace.
                                     Parish  Registers  appointed  to  record  births,  marriages and  deaths.
                                     but many failed to comply.
                              1660 - Parish  ministers,  if  still living returned  to  their  Parishes but  many
                                     registers prior to tbis date were lost or destroyed.
                                     Provincial  ccclesiastical probate courts reopened:  al1 Parishes again
                                     record  christenings, marriages and  burials  in  the  normal  rnanner.
                              1662 - Poor  Relief  Act  introduced  and  appropriate  records  provide
                                     genealogical information.
                               1663 - Earliest date of  Roman Catholic Registers.
                              1665 - The  Great  Plague.  Burial  Register  entries  in  London  increased
                                     enormously.
                              1666 - The  Great  Fire  of  London.  Many  Churches and  Parish  Registers
                                     destroyed.
                              1684 - Huguenot  French Protestant  Registers commenced in London.
                              1688 - Separate  burial  grounds  permitted  for  non-conformists,  Roman
                                     Catholics  and  Jews.  Thus  Church  of  England  Parishes  would  not
                                     record persons buried clsewhere.
                              1695 - Act  of  Parliament  imposed  a  fine upon  aU  who  failed  ro  inform
                                     the Parish Ministers of  the birth of  a child.
                              1714 - Land  holders  takc oath  of  allegiance and  renounce  Roman  Catho-
                                     licism;  quarter session  records  therefore  provide  information  with
                                     regard  to  Protestant  dissenters  and  Roman  Catholic recussants.
                              1720 - Manufacturing  towns increase  in  population. This indicated move-
                                     ment of  population frorn country districts.
                              1741 - Earliest date in known Scotch Registers in London.
                              1749 - Records  of over  10,000 English'Parishes existing back  to  this date
                                     or earlier.
                              1752 - New  style  calendar  inaugurated:  year  to  commence  on  the  1st
                                     January instead of  the 25th March.
                              1754 - Marriage Act. Introduction of  the publication  of  banns  in Parisbes.
                                     Marriages  must  take  place  in  one  of  the  Parishes  of  residence
                                     unless a licence is obtained.
                              1757 - India  becomes  part  of  the British  Empire,  many  families involved
                                     in the East Xndia Company.
                              1759 - Introduction  of  Irish labour for use in construction  of  canals.
                              1760 - The  commencement  of  the  Industrial  Revolution.  This  has  the
                                     effect  of  increasing  the  importance  of  towns  and  the  consequent
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