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Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 70, 23 March 1907, Page 6

Remarkable charges against West L-ountry clergy are made by the Devon and Cornwall Record Society, which complains that many documents of priceless value have disappeared. In on© Devon parish, the society states, the sexted was instructed by the rector to burn all the registers, because troublesome people, came worrying round, wanting him to search through them for nothing. Another rector, in order to escape any trouble winch searchers might cause him, charged an absolutely prohibitive price for extended searches. It has also happened that parish registers have been sold for wastepaper after rectors have died ; single pages are often miss- !? gV i a,/ ear Passes without a most deplorable wastage of these anably lost ' M are tIIUS irre ?»*