Report of Cases in Chancery; Argued and Determined in the Rolls Court During the Time of Lord Landale, Master of the Rolls, 1838-1866 Volume 19 12+

📕 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...be any entry of the baptism of Anne, the daughter of William Hughes v and Anne his wife. It is impossible for me to assent to Haycock. this conclusion. Unfortunately, parish registers are frequently tampered with, and these are not free from some attempts of this character, as in some places, words in a different writing have been occasionally interlined. To these interlineations I pay no attention. No interlineation, however, exists here; the entry in question stands exactly as it did when it was made, and it would require very strong evidence to satisfy me, that the register is not to be trusted, in so material a matter as the christian name of a child whose baptism is recorded. The only evidence offered to support it is, that an error appears in the same register with regard to the name of a man who was buried, and that this alteration, if made, would accord with the evidence given by this and other witnesses of the pedigree of the Plaintiff. The evidence of this witness, therefore, does not, in my opinion, advance the case of the Plaintiff. His Honor next referred to the evidence of several other witnesses, and observed: The minute particularity of this evidence, which cannot be contradicted by any living witness, has noeffect on my mind. I have in s...