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Excerpt from The History of Norfolk, Vol. 5: From Original Records and Other Authorities Preserved in Public and Private Collections But to return to the memorandums to be found in our Parish Registers. Particular years exhibit a remarkable increase in the number of burials, owing to the plague, small-pox, etc., and in such years there was generally a falling-off in the number of marriages and baptisms. At Yarmouth, in 1664, 1665 and 1666 the plague was exceedingly severe from the 17th November in the first year till October in the last named. Two weeks are noticeable as having no entry: the blank is supposed to have been caused by the sudden death of those who registered. In one week, out of 138 deaths, 116 were attributed to the plague. In most registers there are entries of sums collected for persons, and even for towns which had suffered by fires in various parts of England, and for other benevolent purposes. Whilst Norfolk parishes had collections for disasters to places in other counties, so in the several parts of England collections were made in aid of calamities which occurred in Norfolk. For fires at Thetford in 1670 (damage 5 at Gunton, in 1694 (damage at Watton, in 1676 (damage at, East Dereham, in 1682 (damage 5 at Cawston, in 1685 (damage 5 and many others, briefs were granted which secured contributions from various dioceses. So also the Town accounts and the Churchwarden's books relate to payments for like purposes; as, for example, the following from the Forncett accounts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.