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 The registers were the property of the incumbent minister and each parish was required to maintain a chest in the parish church for the safe keeping of the same. In time other records were kept in the chest such as poor lav; records, which were actually the civil parish records. Other records kept in the chest were removal orders, bastardy bonds, overseers" of the poor accounts, etc. Tithe award and Maps, Enclosure Awards and Maps, Church Wardens Accounts, etc.
-'''1597''' - Registers were to be made of parchment instead of paper, and annual reports of all parish register entries were required to be sent to the appropriate bishop, called [[Bishops' Transcripts]] (BT). No doubt the reason we have gaps in some of the early parish registers or they do not exist at all, is that the paper had disintregated and were not available. In some areas earlier registers were destroyed at this time and some were recopied on parchment.
+'''1597''' - Registers were to be made of parchment instead of paper, and annual reports of all parish register entries were required to be sent to the appropriate bishop, called [[Bishop's Transcripts]] (BT). No doubt the reason we have gaps in some of the early parish registers or they do not exist at all, is that the paper had disintregated and were not available. In some areas earlier registers were destroyed at this time and some were recopied on parchment.
 Some ministers made copies for the Bishop as entries were made in the register, some waited until the end of the year to make these copies* Some entries could have been missed. Most often the original parish entry is more complete.