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which the deceased was held. Mj father-in-law's grave at 

 Cowbridge church has been strewed by his surviving servants 

 every Sunday morning for these twenty years," — Malkins 

 South Wales. 



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" The herse, covered with velvet, was carried by six servant- 

 maidens of the family, all in white." — The Virgin's Pattern, 

 d'c. London, 1G61. 



In the northern division of this county (Nottinghamshire), it 

 is generally the practice for six virgins clad in white to bear j^ 



the body of a sister virgin to her burial. And this, I believe, 

 is the ordinary custom in the south of England. 



Page 51, note r, 3. 



" \\' hen a young unmarried person dies, his or her ways to 

 the grave are sti-ewed with sweet flowers and evergreens ; and 

 on such occasions it is the usual phrase, that those persons 

 are going to their nuptial beds, not their graves." — Malkins 

 South Wales. 



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" Our Saxon forefathers called the churchyard ' God's 

 Acre ;' and beautiful is the idea which that name conveys, 

 reminding that it is sown with a seed which will one day 

 spring up as God's great harvest, even more surely than we 

 cun look for the corn which we cast on the tilled ground 

 to spring up in due time with a new life and a new body. 



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