Taken from the archives of the Essex Society for Archaeology and History: S/SEC/4/1, dated 1858
9. Entries of Interment a specially described as with a
coffin, without a coffin; with a sermon …
At Purleigh:
“Oct 27 1706. Henry Barefoot a stragling fellow, was buried
without a coffin.
At Tendring:
“1668/9. Mary wife of George Lones clerk buried Feb 9
with a sermon”.
At Birdbrook:
“Martha Blewitt [th]e wife of
nyne husbands successively buried eight of them: but* last of all [th]e woman
dy’d allso & was buried. May 7th 1681(?). the transcript notes that this was the same
as the sermon text – she is commemorated in the tower of the church.
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