OFF THE RECORD
IN THE MARGINS
Alan Crosby uncovers some intriguing scrawls in the margins of parish registers
There’s a great book by Steven Hobbs, , which I’m finding fascinating. It’s an anthology of the tremendously varied notes, memoranda and jottings made in registers – usually by the vicar, or rector – in the period 1538–1812. Many are about parish business and administration, but the really intriguing ones are comments made about
