Key term for OCR GCSE History B, used in Early Modern Britain c.1500–c.1750.
Parish officials (often older women) who examined the dead to confirm plague cases and report them to the authorities.
Searchers appears in OCR GCSE History B revision content for The People’s Health (c.1250–Present), especially Early Modern Britain c.1500–c.1750 and Responses to plague.
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