Bishop's Transcripts - Licensing Opportunity

Worcestershire County Council is seeking expressions of interest from potential partners to digitise, transcribe and to publish online the records of The Diocese of Worcester Bishops Transcripts from 1598 to 1946. In 1597 Elizabeth I ordered that an annual transcript of that records of baptisms, marriages and burials recorded in parish registers should be copied onto a single sheet of parchment and sent to the diocesan registrar, i.e. the Bishop. These copies, prepared by the incumbent or the churchwardens, became known as 'Bishops' Transcripts'. The transcripts start in 1598 but very few survived before 1608. During the Commonwealth from 1646 to 1660 the offic…

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