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Credit: The parish registers of England / J. Charles Cox. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![in Botland, being by misfortunat chaunce upon a heble (plank bridge) goinge over was drowned over a neede an ashe, beyond Grastonlee my fatheres late house for want of a good bridge and so carried them to Humphrey linne, were founde the same day being Wensday the iij day of Septembe the oulde bridge being driven dowen by a floode before. 1626 {Whitburn, Durham), July 17. bur. John Burne, of Shecles, beinge Casten forth of a Cobble and spent in the sea. 1654-5 (Howden, Yorks). The thirteenth of ye month of January being Saturday at Whitgift the ferry boat unfortunately sunke when John Pycocke and Marmaduke Marshall of Addingfleet with sixe other persons were drowned three escaped. 1573 (Duffield, Derbyshire). April 10th. Robert Randall of Denbigh who going from a Cockfight at Duffield and being drunk fell into water above Duffield bridge and was drowned. 1678 (Wallingford). Will Alcorne was buried May 17. The said William was drowned att Shillingford Ferry by rowing over himself; his horse leaping out of the boat threw him into ye river, as was testefied by two boys y' stood on ye shore. The registers of sea-board parishes frequently record the burials of drowned mariners and voyagers. Entries from three such registers must suffice. The two first relate to the wreck of a troopship in the Bristol Channel; each parish was held responsible for the burial of those cast up within its limits. 1735 (Minehead, Somerset), February 22d. Thirty-five men women and children in one grave, drowned. February 23rd (Ibid.). One child and 7 men and women. 1735 (Dunster), Feb. 22. 19 soldiers, a boy and two women and two children were buried which were drown'd ye day before. [Their interment cost the parish J~g, 4s. 9d]. The registers of the sea-board parish of Whitburn, Durham, have frequent records of death by drowning ; four in 1596, one in 1607, one in 1615, one in 1625, three in 1626, one in 1630, six Dutchmen in 1633, one in 164.1, one each in 1701, 1705,and 1708, two in i7i3,onein i7i5,onein 1754, five](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21352422_0173.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
