This small surviving sample of his life's work suggests that when he died in 1661, at only 35, the 17th century lost one of its greatest musical talents.
The issue of the role of the cement in the blowout may not be fully resolved for some time because the only surviving sample of the actual cement mixture used in the well is under federal safeguard as evidence in continuing investigations.
There is one main surviving one I think now, and a secondary surviving sample, and they are in museums.
The earliest dated surviving sampler, housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum, was made by Jane Bostocke who included her name and the date 1598 in the inscription, but the earliest documentary reference to sampler making goes back another hundred years, to the 1502 household expense accounts of Elizabeth of York, which record the purchase of an ell of linen to make a sampler for the queen.
For the remaining plugs, we randomly assigned a neighbor removal treatment to 2 3 plugs (depending on the surviving sample size) of each species in each replicate plot.
Thus, a follow-up sample of 1459 children remained, which corresponded to an attrition rate of 29%; as a share of the surviving sample, attrition was 19%.
By 2001, when surviving sample members were aged 70-89, just over half of the women were widows although among men those in first marriage still predominated.
Of these, 574 returned a self-completion questionnaire, 412 attended for a health assessment, and 407 (44% of the surviving sample) had a blood sample taken for inclusion in this project.
So as to validate our results in terms of cumulative proportion surviving, sample size calculation was performed with a type I error rate (Alpha) 0.05 and power goal 0.80 by applying the two-tailed Log-Rank test.
Because the longer lived individuals had relatively long telomeres even at 25 days, our data also clearly illustrate how, as the cohort got older, the surviving sample was increasingly biased towards those that started life with long telomeres.
