The register dates from the year 1565, and is in excellent preservation; it is, however, singularly devoid of those touches of interest and of parochial and family gossip which many of these early registers contain. It is headed
Registrum
Omnium Baptizytorum Defunctoru
Et Conjugatorum in Ecclesia parochial
de Saundersted in Comitat Surr
ab &moddit; Anno Millesimo Quingentisimo
Sexagesimo Quinto
1565.
It is signed at the end of the first page, Anthonius Batten, Rector; Thomas Stynte, John Basset, Churchwardens.
In the Appendix will be found the entries relating to the principal families. The following miscellaneous extracts are perhaps worthy of record:—
| 1702. | John Browne born at Planchard (ignoti Laris), Mar. 8. James, Mr. St. John's black, was baptized May 20, 1722. |
| 1609. | Mr. Anthonie Batten, parson, buried 13 August. |
| 1630. | Gregorius Wilkinson, Rectr, buried 18 of November, 1630. |
| 1647. | _ _ _ _ Bullocke [a Trouper] was buried the 16 day of July, 1647. |
| 1678. | John Hawtrey, late Rectr of this Parish, Oct. 11th. |
| 1705. | John Sheppard, Rr of this Parish, Bur: Woolen only, June 3. |
| 1707. | Charles, son of John Lord Lovelace[1] and Lady Charlott his wife, was Burid 10bris 8. |
| 1715. | Mr. William Buckle, Rectr, was buried April ye 8th, 1715. |
| May ye 24th, 1734. The Revd Mr. Daniel Philipps, Rectr of this Parish, was Buried. | |
| The Revd Atwood Wigsell, Rector of this Parish, was buried Nov. 12, 1757. | |
| Elizabeth Stagg buried May 20: 1758, by certificate or order from ye Coroner, having fallen into ye well at the Fox. | |
| 1778. | Thomas Wigsell, Esq., buried 11 July. |
| God Bless. Amen. John Grimes, Rector. | |
John Grimes was Rector of Saunderstedd twenty years, and then resigned, 11 July 1778.
- ↑ John, 4th Lord Lovelace, Baron of Hurley, Royal Governor of New York, 1708, where he died, 6 May, 1709, "of violent convulsions." (Mem. in Heraldry, P. le Neve.)
