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  2. Searcher of the dead - Wikipedia

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    Searchers existed primarily in London, where they were first appointed during the plague outbreaks around 1568. They continued work through the early modern period up until the Registration Act of 1836 , which called for all births, deaths, and marriages in England to be well-documented. [ 1 ]

  3. Great Plague of London - Wikipedia

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    The plague was endemic in 17th-century London, as it was in other European cities at the time. [8] The disease periodically erupted into massive epidemics. There were 30,000 deaths due to the plague in 1603, 35,000 in 1625, 10,000 in 1636, and smaller numbers in other years. [9] [10]

  4. 1603 London plague - Wikipedia

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    The 1603 London plague epidemic was the first of the 17th century and marked the transition from the Tudor to the Stuart period. While sources vary as to the exact number of people killed, around one-fifth of London's population is estimated to have died. [ 3 ]

  5. Bills of mortality - Wikipedia

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    The weekly returns were based on death certificates, and therefore much more accurate than the bills of mortality based on burials. When the Registrar General began weekly returns in 1840 to the Metropolis defined in the 1831 census were added the parishes of Bow, Camberwell, Fulham, Hammersmith and the Greenwich Poor Law Union.

  6. List of entertainers who died during a performance - Wikipedia

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    British actor-comedian Leonard Rossiter died of a heart attack in his dressing room at the Lyric Theatre, London whilst preparing to go on stage during a performance in Joe Orton's play Loot. [33] 1985: Butoh dancer Yoshiyuki Takada was performing The Dance of Birth and Death with a Tokyo artistic troupe, on the side of Seattle's Mutual Life ...

  7. Burney Collection of Newspapers - Wikipedia

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    The Burney Collection consists of over 1,270 17th-18th century newspapers and other news materials, gathered by Charles Burney, most notable for the 18th-century London newspapers. The original collection, totalling almost 1 million pages, is held by the British Library.

  8. Thomas Derrick - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Derrick (fl. 1596 – c. 1610) was an English executioner during the Elizabethan Era. [1]Derrick served as a sailor in the Royal Navy during the Anglo-Spanish war and under the command of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, he took part in the capture of Cádiz.

  9. Hanged, drawn and quartered - Wikipedia

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    The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as depicted in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse. To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland.

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