The churchyards were filled and pits were dug outside the City into which the bodies were thrown without coffins.
When the pestilence ceased the churchyards were covered with a thick deposit of fresh mould to prevent ill consequences.
Skilled diggers might yet make a fortune in the churchyards of the Vale, by carefully washing the dust of the consumers of Angel's gingerbread.
In consequence of neglect, the unprotected state of churchyards was evident from the number of stories in circulation connected with the circumstance of timid and excited passengers going amongst the tombs of the village.
Cemeteries andchurchyards are now as carefully ornamented in Scotland as in England.
Whether the planting of yew in churchyards hold not its original from ancient funeral rites, or as an emblem of resurrection, from its perpetual verdure, may also admit conjecture.
The sight is sometimes a melancholy one; as dreary as some of the city churchyardsin England are the vast cemeteries for the poor that cover the bare hillsides in the neighbourhood of many great Chinese cities.
I find many about the City that live near the churchyards solicitous to have the churchyards covered with lime, and I think it is needfull, and ours I hope will be done.
I left London for the plague, and it frighted me indeed to go through the church more than I thought it could have done, to see so many graves lie so high upon the churchyards where people have been buried of the plague.
The churches or churchyards of monasteries were in great request for burial, but not for common burials, or for burials in a time of epidemic.
The parish churchyards within the walls became insufficient, not merely because of the generations of the dead, but because they were encroached upon.
He is mighty solicitous, as I find many about the City that live near the churchyards, to have the churchyards covered with lime, and I think it is needfull, and ours I hope will be done.
A particular portion is, in some churchyards of Devonshire, separated for the second class and called the chrisomer.
That the belief of our ancestors is not yet extinct, a very slight knowledge of our country churchyards will prove: the north side of the churchyard has generally not more than one or two graves.
He did not look like a good man, such as you read of in evangelical biographies or on the tombstones in churchyards and cemeteries.
Churchyards in overcrowded districts were allowed to spread disease and death all around.
The practice of burying in churches or churchyards is said to have been connected with the custom of praying for the dead, and it would appear that the earlier practice was burying in the church itself.
Near Forchheim, in Upper Franken, a straw-man called the Judas used to be burned in the churchyards on Easter Saturday.
He laments thatchurchyards should ever be found where long, rank grass, briers, and nettles abound, and where neatly kept walks and graves are wanting.
Funeral processions still enter the older churchyards from the east, and proceed in the direction of the sun towards the open graves.
In all our old churchyards the takers of life were interred on the north side, and apparently in Shakespeare's day traditional Pagan rites were observed in the burials of those regarded as Pagans.
The well-known blacksmith's epitaph, said to be written by the poet Hayley, may be found in many churchyards in this country.
Memorials of the Dead, The Journal of the Society for Preserving the, in the Churches and Churchyards of Great Britain.
Similar epitaphs to the foregoing may be found in manychurchyards in this country.
I mean, this churchyard is bigger and prettier than the churchyards in London, where I used to play when I was little.
But the fairs and markets in churchyards on week-days were not prohibited by statute for two hundred and eighty years after the Cockermothians sought protection.
The announcing of sales in churchyards was in the early part of this century a common custom.
Nonconformist petition was organised by four vicars, a curate, a Tory agent, and a Tory councillor; and that harrowing tales were told about churchyards being ploughed up.
So Adrian went, also that proverb about churchyards and bones made such an impression on him that he did no more digging.
Remember that those who dig in churchyards find bones.
Whether the planting of yew in churchyards hold not its original from ancient funeral rites, or as an emblem of resur- rection, from its perpetual verdure, may also admit conjecture.
But while we suppose common worms in graves, 'tis not easy to find any there; few in churchyards above a foot deep, fewer or none in churches though in fresh-decayed bodies.
A portion of many churchyards is said to have been left unconsecrated, though not to be used as playground for the youth of the parish, but for the burial of excommunicated persons.
In "Old Mortality" his fancy had to wander among the relics of another age, among the inscribed tombs of the Covenanters, which are common in the West Country, as in the churchyards of Balmaclellan and Dalry.
There are few churchyards in Ayrshire, Galloway, or Dumfries-shire, where the work of his chisel is not yet to be seen.
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