Feuding in the burial registers

[thisbluespirit]

So, I have been doing some little bits of family history in between Summer, mostly trying to find the baptisms of some of the women on one particular branch, where I've found the marriages so I have the names, but haven't been able to pin them down. I thought, with all of Ancestry's Somerset registers, all the transcriptions for that area and so on I've got, I should finally be able to make some headway with one or two of them, but all I have done so far is not find them more thoroughly. Which is progress of a sort, but it never feels much like it.

Anyway, in the midst of the Bridgwater burial register for the 1720s, which was one of those ones where the vicar has not deigned to do anything more than list names and dates, I came across this entry:

1725 Oct 30 Edw: Raymond a bitter Persecutor of the Vicar and a proud Attorney.

To which someone else has later added in a different, and much smaller hand beside it: But not half as proud, spiteful and ignorant as the then pretended Vicar Laurence Payne was.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, quite. :-D