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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
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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
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chorus of anger finds voice against WRU’s Roger Lewis’,
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