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By undersexton was understood at that time gravedigger and bearer of the dead.

From A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London by Defoe, Daniel

The name of one was John Hayward, who was at that time undersexton of the parish of St Stephen, Coleman Street.

From A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London by Defoe, Daniel