Last one - for now. Completed - thank you

[Wiggy]

(YT - If you back up more than 3 question marks at once they change into 'Huh' type smilies!    )

Thanks YT - I think you are correct about the 'instant'  - not sure about the 7/8 year though

Sandra - again thanks - think the last bit is just saying the same day as above baptisms in May 1659

  and I think the sign just before the 'of' Jane is an & sign. 

You could well be right about the name of the property - or whatever.  I was seeing something similar but wasn't at all sure.

Thank you!      Nothing like a collective or eyes to help sort something out  - thank you  all.

See if anyone else can see anything . . . . . .   

[Billyblue]

I make it Mozley which is probably Mosley as Croswfeet says.

eighteenth instant i.e. 18th of this month (whatever month it was - oh I see it was May)

Dawn M

Strange - I hit Post and walked away ten minutes ago, and now find nothing happened   DM

[mosiefish]

Think the place is Norley.

Mo

[Wiggy]

Hi Mo,

Would Norley be a farm name - or a place nearby, do you think?

Thanks for looking in.

Wiggy 

[mosiefish]

Not sure, but I am still  looking Wiggy 

Mo

[youngtug]

 From the 12th century to 1752, the civil or legal year in England began on 25 March, Lady Day. The [7/8th] [I think it looks like 8/9] would be because the birth would have been between the 1st Jan, and 25th March. The baptism was in May.
 I am not sure about the wording after the 8/9, might not be year

[Wiggy]

No I don't think it says year - to tell the truth I can't even see the numerals yet - still trying though!

Thanks YT.   



On other records - not these, the days are noted as 'After the Visitation' - what visitation would that be - Christmas??   Annunciation??   Michaelmas??

[Flattybasher9]

Don't know if this helps

Regards

Malky

[Bookbox]

I read it as ...

John the son of John Clapp of Norley husb(andman) & of
Jane his wife was borne ^in this p(ar)ishe^ the Eighteenth
instant and Baptised alsoe the xjx^th (19th)
   Thursday (...?) the xxvj^th

The last line at the foot of the page may relate to the date the entries were written up in the register. In any case I don't think it's connected with the baptism.

There is a Norley in the parish of North Lew, near Hatherleigh, but it is some 40-odd miles from Ottery.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/places?DEV,SX505991,5,North%20Lew

The 'Visitation' would be the episcopal visitation, when the Anglican bishop (or his representative) would visit the parishes in the deanery to inform himself about the ministry there and satisfy himself that everything was in order. Theoretically the parish registers might be inspected at that time.