Title | John Cotgreave and Nathan Wright on John Furnivall, yeoman; while hay-making on the estate of Sir Thomas Brooke Bart. he suggested that two of his work-mates George Beckett and Daniel Smith should see who could throw a pikell -hay fork- the farthest; while George Beckett was throwing it, one of the grains -prongs- flew out and hit him in the stomach, giving him a wound from which he later died |