OF THE WELSH. 2S9 



ufu?JIy either on the weH: or fouth fide, thofe per- 

 fons who were interred on the north efcaped the 

 common notice of their friends, and thereby loft the 

 benefit of their prayers. Thus the north fide be- 

 coming a kind of refufe fpot, only paupers, ftill-' 

 born infants, or perfons guilty c»f fome crime, were 

 buried there *. 



In Mr. Pratt's Gleanings through Wales I ob- 

 ferve a charmingly anin^ated defcription of the neat- 

 nefs and elegance of the Welfli church-yards, and 

 of the attention that is bellowed by the furviving 

 i^latives, to the graves of their kindred : but I am 

 forry to fay, if this gentleman has ftated fa61;s, that 

 the cuftom is not general, as he has aiTerted ; it 

 muft be completely local. During the feven months 

 that I fpent in viliting and examining North V/ales, 

 1 never faw, nor could I ever hear, of an inftance of 

 the graves being weeded every Saturday ; " of their^ 

 being every week planted with the choiceft flowers 

 of the feafon," or that, if a nettle or weed were feen 

 on the Sunday morning, the living party to whom 

 the grave b2lono;ed, '- v/ould be hooted, after divine 

 fervice, by the whole congregation." 



* Grofc's Olio, n::. 



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