National Archives reference?

[ElizabethHerts]

I have found the following in the National Archives Discovery catalogue:

Reference: C 108/20
Description:
EX PARTE STURT: Extract from parish register of Holy Trinity: Guildford, Surrey
Date: 1735
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record

Has anyone any ideas what it would be about?

[Merry]

No idea, but you can view the images for that church and year on Ancestry. I was going to look at them myself until I saw the first page and decided I'd let you do it!! :D:D:D

[ElizabethHerts]

I'm on the correct year but I can't see anything, Merry!

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/4790/40761_312032-00002?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2 fsearch%2fdb.aspx%3fdbid%3d4790%26path%3d&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnBrowsing#?imageId=40761_312032-00138

[Merry]

Yep, those are the pages I found too. I did have a quick look eventually, but couldn't see anything out of the ordinary.

[ElizabethHerts]

Sometimes the descriptions in the National Archives catalogue just aren't good enough. It's hard to tell if this item is of interest or not.

[Mary from Italy]

The date is presumably the date of the Chancery case, not necessarily the parish register extract.

[ElizabethHerts]

The date is presumably the date of the Chancery case, not necessarily the parish register extract.

Mary, I didn't see the reference to Chancery. Thanks for pointing it out.

[Phoenix]

As Mary says, it sounds as if it is an extract from a parish register, used in support of someone's claim in a Chancery case. Often there will be other scraps in the same case around the same time which may shed light on what it was about.

The filing system seems to have been in chronological order, cross referenced to cases, rather than everything for a single case all filed together.