church bookn.

OE Wulfstan Homily: Be Mistlican Gelimpan (Hatton 113) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 171 To æghwylcre neode man hæfð on cyricbocum mæssan gesette.

1514 in J. L. Glasscock Rec. St. Michael's, Bishop's Stortford (1882) 34 Pd to the scriviner for mendyng of the cherch bokis.

1555 R. Eden tr. G. F. de Oviedo y Valdés Summarie Gen. Hist. W. Indies in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 188 The lyttle byrdes whiche the lymmers..paynte on the margentes of churche bookes and other bookes of deuine seruice.

1610 J. Dove Advt. Seminaries ii. 17 Images are to be worshipped..not with such worship as belongeth to God; but onely to be honoured, as the Church bookes, and the Church vessels.

c1706 Standing Orders Soc. Propagation of Gospel in Foreign Parts vii. 13 That all such Missionaries as are sent over to Places where there are no Churches, nor Church Books, be provided with a Bible, and Common-Prayer-Book, and Book of Homilies.

1788 G. S. Howard New Royal Encycl. I. at Agenda Also applied to certain church-books,..prescribing the order and manner to be observed by the ministers and people in the principal ceremonies and devotions of the church.

1808 C. Stower Printer's Gram. 9 The dagger..is frequently used in Roman Catholic church-books..where the priest is to make the sign of the cross.

1867 R. Ainslie Church-bk. (new ed.) Pref. p. iii This book is intended to be what its name imports:—a Church-book for the public worship of Almighty God.

1922 Minutes 3rd Biennial Conv. United Lutheran Church Amer. 243 The entire matter has been referred to the Committee on Common Service Book with the request that a church book be prepared and issued for our Spanish speaking Lutherans.

2006 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 10 Apr. (Metro) 1 (caption) Palm leaves rest on a church book in St. Augustine Catholic Church.

1563 Acts 5 Elizabeth I sig. E.iv The licence shal be registred in the Church booke, wyth the knowledge of one of the Churche wardens.

1571 E. Grindal Iniunctions Prouince of Yorke §7. sig. B.iii Going out of their offices they shall..note in the saide Churche booke, whatsoeuer money, ornamentes, stocke, or other Church goodes shall remaine.

1696 Famous Tryal between T. Neale & Lady Ivy 47 The next Peice of Evidence they go to is..in Law evidences of Leases, and those are the Church Books, Ancient Books that have been always read and allowed for Evidence.

1749 E. Turrell Life B. Colman v. 47 He..records in the Church Book an Acknowledgement of their great Obligations.

1788 in Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania (1908) XIII. 18 Provided, That..all their proceedings be fairly and regularly entered in a church book to be kept for that purpose.

1836 2 Apr. in Q. Texas State Hist. Assoc. 11 (1906) 100 Agreed that inasmuch as they were in possession of the Church Book and Constitution..Agreed to revive thier Church meetings, at the same time and Place as formeley [sic].

1888 Daily News 30 Aug. The Rev. John Brown..gives the following extracts from the church-book, touching..their pastor's death.

1911 Proc. N.Y. State Hist. Assoc. 10 303 There is still among the archives of St. Peter's Church what is known as the Church Book, containing the treasurer's accounts for that year.

2001 J. E. P. Exley Frontier Blood (2004) 110 The Parker faction held services somewhere else, and since James had the Church Book, he wrote his version of the proceedings, as he had been doing since the dispute had begun.

1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax sig. Bij They searcht for his petigrew, and..found it out in an old Church booke in the Austen Friers at Genoua.

1612 For Colony Virginea Britannia 5 Euery Minister shall keepe a faithfull and true Record, or Church Booke, of all Christnings, Marriages, and deaths of such our people, as shall happen within their Fort, or Fortresses, Townes or Towne at any time.

a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) i. i. 64 Though the Church-book speak her fifty, they That say she can write thirty..offend her.

1673 S. Dugard Marriages Cousin Germans 58 A Name..to live no where but on a Tombstone, or in the Church Book.

1706 tr. L. Bordelon Managem. Tongue xxiv. 165 There is no need at all to consult a Certificate out of a Church-Book, to know their Age.

1798 E. Inchbald tr. A. von Kotzebue Lovers' Vows ii. 8 Where is your certificate from the church-book of the parish in which you were born?

1816 Times 22 July 2/5 The Rector of Twickenham was present to record the christening of the infant in the church book.

1861 A. Trollope Framley Parsonage III. xvii. 315 She signed her name in the church books as ‘Griselda Grantly’ without a tremor—and without a regret.

1903 J. Ryce Oath in Heaven iii. iii. 320 Davidson, the clerk, was present at the child's christening and has seen the entry in the church book fifty times or more.

2002 S. Waters Fingersmith 447 Bring the vicar of the church they were married in! Bring the great church book—you'll see their names put there!