London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 586
er a sexton may not refuseto admit iron coffins into a burial place; because, by this means,the deceased take a fee simple in the ground, which was onlygranted for a term of years. A curious expedient has beenfound to answer at Shields and Sunderland. The ships whichreturn to these ports with… … .566 South Devon and pMst Corntva/l Hospi/n/, grounds were full : it was recollected that the ballast would beuseful there; and, accordingly, it has been laid upon one layerof dead to such a depth that graves for a second tier are now-dug in the new soil. After the foregoing true representation of…
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