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1658-1853 West Sussex Settlement Certificates & Bonds, compiled by Michael J Burchall, published 2010 by Parish Register Transcription Society (Ref: WSSCB, CD-ROM) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/504799]

Transcribed fully and edited by Michael J Burchall FSG from the original records in West Sussex Record Office. They exclude the parishes now in West Sussex which were moved in 1974 from East Sussex, as these are included in the Eastern Sussex Settlement Certificates and Bonds 1651-1834 CD.

1556- 1694 Sussex Church Court Deponents, compiled by Michael J Burchall, published 2014 by Parish Register Transcription Society (Ref: SXXDPN, CD-ROM) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507813][Lib/507814]

The archives of the Sussex Church Courts are most interesting for local and family historians. Cases (known as Causes) could be brought by individuals or by direct summons from the court. Cases covered tithes, church repairs, pew allocation, probate, morality, matrimony, clergy responsibilities and even bewitching. Michael J Burchall FSG has extracted from the original records in West Sussex Record Office details of people who made depositions which include name, trade, age, birthplace and residences.

1805 West Sussex Land Tax, compiled by Michael J Burchall, published 2014 by Parish Register Transcription Society (Ref: SXXLTX, CD-ROM) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508012]

Land Tax began in 1692/3 and was made permanent by statute in 1798. It was a tax on personal property including land, houses, shops, wharfs, woods, meadows, mills, tithes, glebes and salaries. Michael Burchall has been transcribing Land Tax Returns since 1973. The 1785 Sussex Returns have been published by Sussex Record Society, so Michael has chosen to abstract returns a generation on, for 1805 for West Sussex from the originals at West Sussex Record Office. The CD lists the Owner, Occupier and Rental, parish by parish.

1815 West Sussex Land Tax, compiled by Michael J Burchall, published 2015 by Parish Register Transcription Society (Ref: SXXLT2, CD-ROM) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508885]

To celebrate the bicentenary, Michael Burchall has transcribed another annual Land Tax for West Sussex, following his previous one for 1805. Full details have been transcribed from digital copies of the handwritten returns at WSRO on over 300 pages and indexed with a useful historical Introduction. Since 1973 Michael Burchall has been transcribing Land Tax returns with other SFHG Members which were published in early editions of the SFHG Journal "Sussex Family Historian" and included East Sussex places from Albourne to Brighton until the enormity of the project overtook them.