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18 May 1734: The epitaph on the tombstone of the prolific William Strutton of Patrington, buried this day

John Hobson. 1877. The Journal of Mr. John Hobson, Late of Dodworth Green. Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Ed. Charles Jackson. Durham: Surtees Society. A (morbid) compendium of everyday England. It is sometimes unclear whether the date given is that of an occurrence or that on which news reached his capacious ears. Get it:

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Here lyeth the body of William Strutton, of Padrington, buried the 18th of May, 1734, aged 97, who had by his first wife 28 children, and by a second wife 17. Own father to 45; grandfather to 86; great grandfather to 97; and great great grandfather to 23; in all 251.

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To facilitate reading, the spelling and punctuation of elderly excerpts have generally been modernised, and distracting excision scars concealed. My selections, translations, and editions are copyright.

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The editor notes various other mentions of Mr Strutton.

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To facilitate reading, the spelling and punctuation of elderly excerpts have generally been modernised, and distracting excision scars concealed. My selections, translations, and editions are copyright.

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Footnotes and illustrations omitted. My translation of Stillingfleet’s quote from the Gallic Wars 4.33.3 is based on McDevitte (Caesar 1879) and is slightly extended for the benefit of non-antiquarians. Abraham de la Pryme was the first to mention the Iron Age cemetery at Arras, in a letter to Dr Gale, Dean of York, in January or February 1699:

I saw in my journey to York many hundreds of tumuli, which I take to be Roman, at a place called Arras, on this side Wighton, not mentioned in any author, which I intend next summer to dig into and take a whole account and descriptions thereof, and of all other Roman stations, monuments, streets, places of battle, coins, or whatever is observable whereever I come (Pryme 1870).

Here’s Arras Farm in 1950. I’m sure the three tumuli mentioned in the full letter have all been obliterated by intensive farming, but can someone identify their exact locations?

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