Promising baptism

[Annie65115]

I've come across two baptisms on the same page of a church register (1798 - 1800) which have the word "promising" infront of the child's name, then the rest recorded as per all the others. Hopefully the image will show on the attachment - it's the first and last entries on the snip.

Anyway, I haven't come across this before. I wondered if it might be that the children underwent a private baptism?

[arthurk]

I haven't come across the phrase before, but I think your interpretation is correct. After a private (emergency) baptism, if the child lives the expectation is that he/she will be brought to church and the godparents make the promises that they would have made if it had been a public baptism:

https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/book-common-prayer/private-baptism-infants

The private baptisms should also be recorded, though in the first instance here, as the date is out of order, it may be that the minister made a single entry to refer to both.