Curzon, 1712

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Start with the Archive.org and Google Books links and verify the quoted pages 325–326. The issue names no file, test, or entry point; inspect the repository’s existing source-reading structure before recording the 1712 citation and excerpt, with completion marked by a consistent entry.

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https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-universal-library-o_1712_2/page/324/mode/2up also https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OhKUKw7u8LQC&pg=PA325&dq=bread+sin+eater&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=bread%20sin%20eater&f=false

The universal library: or, compleat summary of science. Containing above sixty' select treatises. In two volumes. ... 1712: Vol 2

p325-6

the Cuſtom at Funerals in Herefordſhire where poor People to take on them the Sing of Deceaſed, whom they termed Sin-eaters: the Practice in ſome Parts of Lancaſhire and Cheſhire, on the Second of November, to ſet on a Table Board a high Heap of Soul-Cakes (like to the Shew Bread in the Bible) where every Viſttant took one, and other the like Uſages I forbear to ſpeak at large, referring to others who have writ thereof, ...

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