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Local registration of the fact of death was introduced during the reign of Henry VIII (1538) as a tax-gathering exercise, and a further Act in 1597 required deposition of a second copy in the office of the appropriate diocese.
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Green, J., Green, M. (1991). Registration of death. In: Dealing with Death. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7216-3_3
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