Poorly Located Monument record BSE 529 - Post Medieval roadside burial of a suicide: William Sell

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Summary

Roadside burial of a suicide, 1779. Formerly recorded as BSE MISC

Location

Grid reference TL 85 65 (point) Poorly located
Map sheet TL86NE
Civil Parish BURY ST EDMUNDS, ST EDMUNDSBURY, SUFFOLK

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Full Description

1779: William Sell, sentences to stand in pillory for "sodomy" took arsenic. "Buried in the kings highway and a stake driven through his body" (Ipswich Journal, 31 July 1779(S1).


Formerly recorded as BSE MISC

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <S1> Bibliographic reference: Folklore Journal. Halliday R,'Roadside Burial of Suicides: An East Anglian Study, Folklore 121, April 2010, 91..

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Record last edited

May 21 2020 8:38AM

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