"The first volume of the Parish registers of Shipbourne here printed has been for many years missing from the parish chest, but its presence there is recorded in the parish register Abstract of 1831, and the date at which it begins is given correctly. The original is a small parchment volume of 86 folios, contained in eight sections, with a uniform page 7 1/4 by 5 3/4 inches; from the first section three folios are missing, and the register probably...