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Ie6lions thus made, amount fometimes 

 to ten or fifteen pounds, but where the 

 relatives are indigent, to not more than, 

 three or four {hillings. If the relatives 

 are poor, but particularly where a man, 

 or woman, is left with a number of chil- 

 dren, the money is ufually given to 

 them by the clergyman. After the col- 

 lection is entirely finifhed, the remain- 

 der of the burial fervice is read, and the 

 awful ceremony is clofed. The offerings 

 at Llanbublic, and Caernarvon, are faid, 

 upon an average, to amount to feventy 

 five, or eighty pounds a year. I have 

 been told, that it is the intention of the 

 clargy of North Wales, to abolifh this 

 cuftom, if pofTible. 



It is ufual in Caernarvon fli ire, and 

 fome other parts of North Wales, for 

 the neareft female relative of the decea- 

 fed, be fhe widow, mother, fifter, or 

 daughter, to pay fome poor perfon of 



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