Reports and papers of the architectural and archaeological societies of the counties of Lincoln and Northampton (1856)
Associated Architectural Societies. Reports and papers, Architectural and Archaeological Society of the County of Lincoln, Northamptonshire Architectural and Archaeological Society, Yorkshire Architectural and York Archaeological Society, Worcestershire Archaeological Society, Leicestershire Archaeological Society · Lincoln · leaf 115
—that we were in the habit of burning the bodies of ourrelations after their decease, and placing their ashes in urns, and that our ideas with respect to Celestial Beings were of thegrossest and most ludicrous description—in short, that we hadfaith in skulls, cross-bones, hour-glasses, bats-wings,… … growth in the now very general demand for something betterwherewith to mark our love or respect for the dead—for somedescription of Monument which shall a little more appropriatelythan heretofore indicate the temporary resting place of theChristians body—both Churchmen and Dissenters being…
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