WEBVTT 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:06.900 As I said in my last comment East Hampshire which is in the Weald and on the Downland shares a culture with Sussex. I grew up on one of the hills in the very SW of the Downland on Catherington Hill and I attended boarding school in the New Forest it was a completely alien culture. In the New Forest they still have the structures established during the Norman period when the New Forest was legally formed as a Royal Forest eg Verderers Court. Commoners are still legally allowed to let livestock roam freely in the forest including on the roads. This does not happen in East Hampshire. Research and ideas have meant that the South Downs are no longer seen as ending at the Hampshire/Sussex Border. The historical geographer the late Peter Brandon saw the western end of the South Downs as Old Winchester Hill in the Meon Valley. Today the western end of the South Downs is considered to be St Catherine's Hill to the east of Winchester. I am now working on what I call the 'Southern Weald' that is the area of wastes - forests, commons and heaths in the east from north and east of Chichester (Broyle Heath) and in the west Shedfield Common, Curdridge Common the western 'boundary' being the River Hamble. Our understanding of an area of a type of landscape changes due to research. 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:38.900 Is this register digitised on London Lives? 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:33.900 Did he record numbers of Easter communicants (Easter Book; tokens) and what might that signify, if anything? 00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:09.900 I'm not sure - I'm pretty sure there is a copy of the paper register on Ancestry - alas behind a paid subscription. 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:18.900 How many parishioners were there at St Botolph's? Some of these London parishes were huge. 00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:21.900 Hello Dave, Numbers of communicants are recorded in the parish clerk's book. A great deal of work was done on these records in the AHRC funded project Life in the Suburbs, but I don't think the paper register has received much attention 00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:14.900 That was fascinating, John, thank you. I was very taken in the spring with the Leonard Wheatcroft parish register from mid-17thc Derbyshire, and the way he used it to write and record his own family history, (dating back before the events he was meant to be recording...!). 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:19.900 Hard to give precise figures on the population. We know there were more than 3000 communicants by 1580 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:06.900 Dave Postles: I think Jeremy Boulton did something with St Botolph's communion tokens to suggest high attendance at Easter... 00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:39.900 I think the evidence of communion tokens comes from St Saviour's Southwark but I'm sure that Jeremy Boulton used the numbers found in the St Botolph's parish clerk's book. The clerk provides totals of those who communicated and when. 00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:05.900 Hi I've uploaded my file but now can't see it as I had to leave and come back because I lost connection and now I'm listed as a guest not a presenter. 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:42.900 I had the same problem Fiona but the organisers made a quick change and all was solved 00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:09.900 Thanks can see them now. 00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:08.900 For both: did the church authorities (bishops, archdeacons) have a view about making 'private' records? 00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:23.900 A useful comparison would be with the rector of Morebath, who also wrote the parish accounts 00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:35.900 Is there an absence of personal diaries amongst priests in other parts of Catholic Europe? 00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:40.900 For John: do you have a sense of family/household attachments to the parish recorded in births and burials? 00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:51.900 I don't know if this is relevant, by I think John Emrys touches on how in some cases record keepers are encouraged to record events of note to the parish? (floods, fires etc) 00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:20.900 Thanks for both replies 00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:09.900 thanks to all three - a very stimulating session. 00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:23.900 Great, thanks John