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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If the name occurs in the parish accounts, then
Elizabeth may have been either the parish clerk / sexton (it was not uncommon
for women, and widows of previous ones in particular, to hold this office
even if some of the more ardous work was undertaken by members of their family)
or the local publican (sometimes the parish by-passed the middleman - the
ringers - and paid the publican direct)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Not saying what might have happened in this case,
but these possibilities need to be factored in. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>CP</FONT></DIV>
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