Newport

NEWPORT, a parish (formerly a market-town) in the hundred of UTTLESFORD, county of ESSEX, 3½ miles(SSW) from Saffron-Walden, containing 852 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the jurisdiction of the Commissary of Essex and Herts, concurrently with the Consistorial Court of the Bishop of London, rated in the king’s books at £9 10, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church, dedicated to St Mary, is a fine structure in the later English style, having a lofty western tower, crowned with embattled turrets. There is a place of worship for Independents. A free grammar school was founded in1586, by Joyce Frankland and William Saxie, her son, who endowed it with a rent-charge and other property, now producing together an annual income of about £200. At the northern end of the village are slight remains of an hospital, founded, in the reign of John, by Richard de Newport, the revenue of which, at the dissolution, was £23 10 8. Two fairs are held, on Easter-Tuesday and November 17th, but the market has been long disused.
Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831

Newport Baptisms DP 15-1-1 1556-1660

Newport Baptisms DP 15-1-2 1661-1812

Newport Marriages DP 15-1-1 1559-1660

Newport Marriages DP 15-1-2 1661-1750

Newport Marriages DP 15-1-5 1754-1812

Newport Burials DP 15-1-1 1556-1660

Newport Burials DP 15-1-2 1661-1812

Further registers for Newport are included in the FreeREG database.