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dotes, which it is our intention to supply in small portions occasionally, as 

 we find room, under the above title. 



The Interment of Sir William Temple's Heart in his Garden, to some 

 inconsiderate and foolish people gave offence; but, though the thing itself is 

 justifiable enough and deserves no reply, yet let them take this, communi- 

 cated in a letter to the editor of this work (Aubrey), dated Oct. 1. 1717, 

 from a reverend, ingenious, and learned divine of the church of England, 

 deservedly an intimate friend of Sir William Temple's, in these words : " As 

 to that particular, of his (Sir William Temple's) laying his heart in his garden, 

 a thing so common with the ancients that it seems strange to me that it 

 should seem offensive to the world, especially, if we consider that it was 

 no removal, but a bare consigning it after his death to that paradise where 

 it continued while he was alive ; surely we may not think a garden so 

 unhallowed a sepulchre for any private Christian's body, which our Saviour 

 consecrated with his own." {Aubrey's Survey, vol. hi. p. 349.) 



Burial in a Field. — One of the finest circumstances in the history of 

 rural burial, is related of that most worthy and most benevolent of men, 

 Thomas Hollis, Esq. (Milton's great admirer,) who ordered his body to be 

 buried in one of his fields at Carscomb, in Devonshire, and the field to be 

 ploughed over immediately after his interment. 



Art. XII. Garden Antiquities. 



PICTURE of an ancient Garden, {fig. 130.) — A painting seven feet six 

 inches by four feet eight inches, by Sebrecht, dated 1696, of the house 

 and gardens of Wollaton Hall, near Nottingham, as they appeared in the 



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