This entry is mystifying us. It seems to say “Paid the Expences of Crovining and Buring Burgundeys Child she had by John Hobbes £0 16s 7d”
There is no such word as “Crovining” in the full Oxford English Dictionary.
If the author meant “Crowning” why did he put a distinct dot over the “w”?
If he meant “Crowning” – what does that mean? “Crowning and burying an illegitimate child”?
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Even without the dot it still does not look like a “w” to me. It could be “crouining”, but as far as I know that isn’t a word either.
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I don’t think we will ever know what the Overseer meant.
“crouning” does not occur in the OED. I have even used wildcards to search, but the only possibility is “crowning”, and there is no such expression as “crowning and burying”
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