See Preface to the MoEML Finding Aid for the Bills of Mortality for details on the creation of this document. Submitted as an assignment for Digital Humanities 491 (Directed Reading): Remediating Bills of Mortality, a directed reading course undertaken by
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I have standardized all Julian dates to consider the beginning of the year at January 1, following the practices of the STC, Wing, and Serial. While the Bills of Mortality may have been on what is known as the nativity calendar
(as evidenced in the yearly bills), this distinction is never explicit. Thus, these are encoded with
A † denotes that I have inferred the data. For more explanation of my sources, see the