Some comments on Ursula M. Cowgill's article, 'life and death in the sixteenth century in the city of York' (Population Studies, July 1967)

Abstract The initial purpose of Miss Cowgill's investigation was to study possible differences in mortality according to the season of birth, a study in which groups of people must be followed from birth to death. In the present case the groups were composed of people born in six parishes of the City of York between 1538 and 1601.