William Mompesson
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William Mompesson was a Church of England priest whose decisive action when his Derbyshire parish, Eyam, became infected with the plague in the 17th century averted more widespread catastrophe.
Mompesson's Memorial at Eakring
Thomas Stanley (puritan)
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Thomas Stanley was an ejected puritan minister whose actions alongside Church of England priest William Mompesson when the Derbyshire parish, Eyam, became infected with the plague during the 17th cent
William Mompesson
…during the winter only to come back even more virulently in the spring of 1666. Mompesson, in conjunction with another clergyman, the ejected Puritan Thomas Stanley, took the courageous decision to isolate the village. In all, 260 of the village's inhabitants, including Mompesson's wife Catherine, died before the…
Thomas Stanley's Grave at Eyam.