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A country parish like this has an average of 250 people in it, which translates into roughly a thousand adult deaths per century, plus a few thousand more poor souls that didn’t make it to maturity. Multiply that by the number of centuries that the church has been there and you can see that what you have here is not eighty or a hundred burials, but probably something more on the order of, say, twenty thousand.”
Bad math if average life is 50 then 500 deaths per century in a population of 250. Add for stillborn & accidental death -etc say 10 per yr= 1000/century Thus total would be1500/century
Church there for 800 yrs (8 centuries) therefore 1500 x 8 = 12,000 max
56,000
It would be 335000
seventh
That means no trees left after seven years!
tennis
No tennis till 1300's
porridge with salt,
Porridge Was traditionally eatem with salt and still is in Scotland
