This volume covers the latter part of Charles II’s reign (1679–1685), the reigns of James II (1685–1688), William III (1688–1702), Ann (1702–1714 ) and George I (1714–1727), and that of George II from 1727–1754, thus taking in the change of calendar from Julian to Gregorian in September 1752. In that year Wednesday September 2nd was followed by Thursday September 14th. 1753 began on January 1st.

1753 also saw the introduction of Hardwicke’s Marriage Act, which sought to regulate and clarify the forms of marriage. It arose because of a growing number of clandestine marriages, elopements and abductions of heiresses, as well as the ambiguities in what actually constituted a marriage owing to differences between the common law and ecclesiastical law, and contradictions within the laws themselves. The Act made it illegal to marry without a church service, required parental consent for the marriage of anyone under 21, defined times and places in which a marriage could take place in order to be legal, required all marriages to be entered into a church register, and transferred the control of marriage from the ecclesiastical to the secular courts.

This volume contains 440 entries. One very notable feature is the extremely high proportion of marriages by licence from about 1720 onwards, many of them of couples from outside the parish. The name of the officiating priest is also recorded.