biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1639–1709)
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| biography:
| Rector of Eyam, Derbyshire, C England, UK, where in 1665–6 the plague (brought from London in a box of infected cloths) carried off 267 of his 350 parishioners. He persuaded his people to confine themselves entirely to the parish, and the disease was not spread. In 1669 he became rector of Eakring, Nottinghamshire, and in 1676 was made a prebendary of Southwell. |
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