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Post by Catsmate on Mar 18, 2022 16:42:53 GMT
A fascinating resource this, at least for those of us interested in (or inspired by) accidents and death in England (and Wales) during the Tudor period.
For example take the people of North Piddle (yes, it's a real place, in Worcestershire). They seem to have had back luck with their rectors.
At about seven in the evening of Monday 6 March 1570, the rector, one Thomas Jameson was on his way home from Upton Snodsbury, two miles away (it's still around). He'd been North Piddle's rector for around twenty years (since at least 1561). Alas that evening the good rector was (as described in the coronal records) ‘valde ebriosus’ (i.e. very, very drunk). Also alas for mister Jameson, the road lay close to a stream, called ‘Grafton broke’ (one of a network of such running south into the Avon). At a place called ‘Myll medow slyppe’ Rector James fell in and was drowned. Curiously his successor, Richard Clough, had to be deprived of office by the bishop in 1579 for unspecified offences. His replacement, one John Jones (appointed 1583), held the post until 1625
What details of the strange goings-on down there never made it into the official records? Naturally there is no recounting of the dispatch of a crack team of Walsingham's agents to rural Worcestershire to determine (and deal with) the true cause of the deaths, and related odd happenings.
Enjoy.
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Post by grinch on Mar 18, 2022 23:19:45 GMT
Thanks for this Catsmate, looks like a most intriguing resource.
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