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graphy ; its modern form is Roskilde, three
syllables, as in the well-known line com-
mencing a poem by Carl Ploug :
I Roskilde Kirke hun hviler bag. The above remarks are applicable to most cases, but the other name inquired about, Oersted, is an exception, as also is Oerslev. In these two surnames the Danish oe has the same sounds as the German oe in Goethe. JAMES PLATT, Jun.
THE POET PAOLO ROLLI AND HIS PATRONS (9 th S. ii. 226). Warno's 'Bijou Biography' gives the poet as P. A. Rolli, and states that he died in 1767. ARTHUR MAYALL.
THEATRE TICKETS AND PASSES (9 th S. ii. 348). Robert Wilkinson's ' Londina Illustrata,' 1819, vol. ii., contains illustrations and de- scriptions of twenty-six checks and tickets of admission to the public theatres and other places of amusement between 1671 and 1817.
EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.
THEOPHILUS METCALFE, 1798 (9 th S. ii. 328). For the family of this name see any baronetage. G. F. R. B.
REMARKABLE LAPSUS CALAMI (9 th S. ii. 125, 235, 337). At the last reference J. B. S. says :
"The officiating minister need not sign the
register himself It is otherwise with marriage
registers, which must be signed by the officiating minister in his own handwriting."
In the Act of Parliament relating to parish registers which became law 28 July, 1812 (52 Geo. III. cap. 146), it is enacted in clause iii. :
" That every such rector, vicar, curate, or officiating minister shall as soon as possible after the solemnization of every baptism, whether private or public, or burial respectively, record and enter in a fair and legible handwriting in the proper register-book to be provided, made, and kept as aforesaid, the several particulars described in the several schedules hereinbefore mentioned, and sign the same."
A similar clause was inserted in the Act of Tynwald promulgated 8 March, 1849, which is still binding on the clergy of the Isle of Man. Has this clause in the English Act of Parliament been repealed ? If so, when 1 ERNEST B. SAVAGE.
St. Thomas', Douglas.
OLDEST PARISH REGISTER (8 th S. xi. 108, 215; 9 th S. ii. 35, 133, 176, 278, 396). I have on my shelves a copy of the Census Returns for 1831. Vol. iii. contains the " Parish Register Abstract " of all the parishes in England and Wales, ordered by the House
of Commons to be printed 2 April, 1833.
These returns of the state of the church
registers were furnished by the clergy in pur-
suance of the Act passed in the eleventh
year (1830) of the i*eign of George IV.
I have selected those parishes which your various correspondents claim to possess the oldest parish register :
Carburton, Notts, Bap., Mar., Bur., 1528. Perlethorpe, Notts, Bap., Mar.. Bur., 1528. Elsworth, Cambridge, Bap., Mar., 1529 ; Bur., 1539.
Alfriston, Sussex, Bap., Mar., Bur., 1538. Halsall, Lancashire, Bap., Mar., Bur., 1662.
The Standard newspaper of 2 Nov. and three following days furnishes particulars of several parish registers commencing at various dates during the sixteenth century. Some few churches possess records anterior to 29 September, 1538, when the duty of keeping them was imposed on the clergy. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.
71, Brecknock Road.
READE OR READ FAMILY (9 th S. ii. 168, 293). I have in the press a volume called 'A Record of the Redes ' Rede being the ancient spelling ; and while this volume deals mainly with the Reades of Berks, Oxon, and Herts, I have added an account of all the principal lines. This work is being printed for private circulation, the edition being limited to 250 copies, of which the major part are already subscribed for. I believe it will be both the most exhaustive and most accurate account of these families
et issued. There are three distinct lines of
1. That of Redesdale, which in origin is
royal. Riada, king of Dalriada, after his
defeat by Kenneth, settled in Redesdale, and
the Redes are his descendants, or the de-
scendants of his sept, which for nine genera-
tions dominated West Scotland.
2. The Welsh Redes, whose name may have been Rhydd or Rhudd. They were at Carmarthen in the thirteenth century ; then in Pembrokeshire, Castle Roche ; then at Boddington and Breedon, Gloucestershire ; lastly at Lugwardine, Herefordshire.
3. The East Anglian Redes sometimes spelt Red and Redd. Read is a very modern development, and Reid is Scotch. This family commences in the fifteenth century.
The Redes of Boarstal may be of North- umbrian origin. The origin of the Berks, Oxon, and Herts Redes or Reades is obscure. They were of importance at the Reformation period, and have had three patents of baronetcy. Of them was Charles Reade, the novelist.
