Seasonable considerations on the indecent and dangerous custom of burying in churches and church-yards. With remarkable observations historical and philosophical ... Proving, that the custom is not only contrary to the practice of the ancients, but fatal, in case of infection / [Anon].

  • Lewis, Thomas, 1689-1749?
Date:
1721
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Credit: Seasonable considerations on the indecent and dangerous custom of burying in churches and church-yards. With remarkable observations historical and philosophical ... Proving, that the custom is not only contrary to the practice of the ancients, but fatal, in case of infection / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Chap. I. Burials in Churches in Britain. B URIAL S in Churches, rJU hen introduced in BRITAIN. WIJi.N D as to this Nation of Britain, it is re- ^ i • tt-/i • /• n ^ .1 / A '(fH corded in our Hi dories, (a) That Cuthred 'eil-Saxons in the Seventh Century, was the firft in Eng¬ land who permitted the Bodies of the Dead to be bu¬ ried within the Walls of the Cities, which were bu¬ ried in open Fields before. And Ay let Sammes (b) further tells us, That Cut¬ ler t the Tenth Archbifhop of Canterbury, from St. Au¬ stin, Anno 798, procured the Privilege from the Pope, to have Church-Yards for Interrment. And Dr. Inett (c) acknowledges, That the Antient Cudom of the Englifl) Church, which never fuffer’d the Bodies of Chriftians to be buried in Churches was chang’d, and the Burial in Churches introduced in the latter End of the Eighth Century, about the Year 794* And even fo late as Anno 107<5, in the Reign of William the Conqueror, the Council held at Winchefier under Lan- frank^ Archbifhop of Canterbury, forbid the Burial in Churches by the 9th Canon, (d) the Thirteenth King of the (.a) Bal. Hifl. p- 3. Sir Richard Baker. (/>) Sammes Brit. Aniiq. p. 214. Godwin Vit. Cuthert. (c) Dr. Inett HiJI. Eccl. Lib. I. cap. 13. p. 225. (d) Ibid. Vol. 2. c, 2. p. 39.