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John Thompson, dying at Hillows Bank, was excommunicated, and was brought into the churchyard, and there left in his winding sheet, the fifth day of August, and afterwards buried by some of his friends in the nettles under the church wall, out of the common place of burial.

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Where’s Hillows Bank? Hallows?

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The following is extracted from the register of the Leeds parish church:

John Thompson, dying at Hillows Bancke, was excommunicated, and was brought into the churchyard, and there left in his winding sheet, the fifth day of August, and afterwards buried by some of his friends in the nettles under the church wall, out of the common place of burial.

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