[Rarebooks] FS: You can scarcely bury a corpse without having to dig up another...

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

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Whalley, G. Hammond, Esq. "NEW BURY CEMETERY. Report of the Commissioners
of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings,
enclosing the Report of the Surveying Officer appointed under the above
Act [with] Minutes of Evidence taken before George Hammond
Whalley...respecting a Bill for the establishing a General Cemetery for
the Internment of the Dead in the Parish of Newbury"

Ordered by The House of Commons to be Printed: 1 March, 1847.

All the particulars regarding the establishment of a cemetery in the rural
Berkshire parish of Newbury. Includes a magnificent amount of detail on
mid-19th century burial practices and statistics. There was no question a
new burial ground was needed, but still the project engendered some
controversy; it seems that local churchmen might have preferred to keep
burial a province of the local churches.

One Rev. testified-

"You can scarcely bury a corpse without having to dig up another. There is
no question we want enlargement, but as, a Clergyman, I should very much
prefer that additional Burying-grounds should be procured in the usual
way, by forming more Churchyards, generally. A cemetery embraces all, and
is under very peculiar circumstances. I must admit such a thing is wanted,
and if no better provision can be made to meet the evil, I certainly think
the Cemetery would be desirable. I know the Bishop has a very great
objection to Cemeteries, and certainly, as a Clergyman, I feel the same
myself".

Hardcover. 8.5"x13", xxiii + 30 pages; bound in new cloth covers; a very
nice copy. [06120] $250.00


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