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The 13 pathetic little lozenge-shaped gravestones huddled together in Cooling churchyard indicate the high level of infant mortality in the Hoo Peninsula in the eighteenth century...

The rotund, roistering character of Sir John Falstaff in Shakespeare’s ‘King Henry lV, parts 1and 2’ (late 1590s) and ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’, (early 1600s) had his origins in an altogether different individual, Sir John Oldcastle...