Notes on the crypt and bones of Hythe Church / by H.D. Dale and F.G. Parsons.

  • Dale, Herbert D.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Notes on the crypt and bones of Hythe Church / by H.D. Dale and F.G. Parsons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    5. tliero were formerly at least four other cliurches in or near Hvthe, all of which e/ ' proljably had graveyards. <). That Hasted, in his ‘ History of Kent,’ speaks of a battle having taken place between the Britons and Saxons in A.n. T5G, but his authority for any such battle cannot be ti’aced. 7. That frequent fights probably took place between the inhabitants and French landing parties, in one of which (in 1295) 2T0 of the eneniv are said to have been killed. 8. That in ancient times shipwrecks on the coast were more frequent than now. The old registers refer to some. 9. That the plague visited Hythe in the latter part of Henry Vlll’s reign, also in 1597 and H)23, in the reigns of Elizabeth and James 1, and pi'obably many times before, if Ave may judge by its treatment of the rest of England. Most of these points have been ably set forth in a paper read by Dr. Randall Davis, of this toAvn, to the East Kcuit Brandi of the British Medical Association in Ecjitenilier, 1898. On examining the skulls one is at once struck ])y their whiteness, and this is more evident when tliey are compared with the three Avhich