It would be C. Erasmus, hope this helped :)
Hmph.. James II, King of England, he was able to accomplish the gain absolute rule<span> since he pursued Catholicism as the state religion and dismissed Parliament. He was ousted in the Glorious Revolution of 1688..
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Explanation:
In the 17th century natality and mortality was managed by the church. The church had all the records of the people that have been born in that period of time, and of the people that had died (and how did they died; if they had a disease or something in between those matters). A historian that is doing some research about the diseases of a specific population would find this information very important; because by reading the funeral records he could come to a conclusion.