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![Deaths through cold and snow are chiefly met with in registers of mountainous or hilly districts. In addition to those here cited, other instances can be gleaned from registers of parishes round Exmoor, Dartmoor, and the Lake district. 1614-15 {Stamford Baron, JV'hants). John Madisonne being perished on Spittlehill in the greate snow, buried March 10. 1616 {Darky Dale, Derbyshire). John the sonne of John Ward was buried 15 Dec. Perished with cold on ye moor. 1638 {Ibid.). Frances the wife of Robert Haslowe was buryed 28 Oct. Perished with colde on ye moor. 1664 {Alstonfield, Staffs), Mar. 10. Anne, w. of Tho. Hill, who was smothered in a snowy day on Calton Moor, bur. 1684 {Willesley, Derbyshire). Timothy Anderson of Ashley who was found starved to death with cold within this parish was here buryed upon the twenty sixth day of December. 1692 {Eyam, Derbyshire), Feb. 4- Bur. Elizabeth Trout, starved to death in a snow on Sir William (a hill 1200 ft. high). 1743 {Ibid.), Feb. 5. Bur. Stephen Broomhead, starved to death in a snow, Eyam Moor. 1772 {Monyash, Derbyshire), 5 Feb. Buried John Alcocke blacksmith and Richd Boham. [These two men were starved to death in coming from Winster market on Middleton Moor and brought down to Mid. Boham was a baker and was fd he died as they were bringing him through Fr. Black- wall's yd on a ladder on Monday morning. They were lost on Satd night 31 Jan., and found on Monday 2 Feb. Alcocke was dead on the entrance to Oneash farm, and Boham was fd somewhere on Kenslow. The fds of the deceased were g* blamed for not having been in search on the Sunday (Woolley MSS 6700)]. Considering the numbers respectively employed in various forms of mining, the accidental deaths in connection with such occupations were probably as frequent in the past as in the present. The following are a few of the register-recorded accidents of this class:— 1580 {Chesham, Bucks). Richard Moreton laborer was killed in a chalke pitt and buried 17 June.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21352422_0171.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
