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« on: Thursday 24 February 22 14:24 GMT (UK) »
Thank you for that. However, my interest was in how much things like baptism, marriage and burial cost - so maybe the actual service costs nothing, but the cost of registration is an element of costs that the family would bear. I have seen a list of charges in a parochial register and there is a paper on costs charged by St Martins in the Fields, so I am assuming that there were charges, even if they were for registration (also the 1812 Act says that "Nothing in this Act shall increase or diminish the fees heretofore payable or the right due to any Minister for the performance of the before mentioned duties"). The fees I've seen - 1/6 for a baptism for instance in 1714 - seems a lot given agricultural wages at the time.
My interest is in the early 19th century at the moment and I wondered if they had risen much since 1740, when I had the earlier information.
RWT