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marked Nos. I., II., III., IV., and V. That these plans have been approved of by
the present Petitioners, the Rector of the said Parish, and by the Churchwardens
thereof, and by the Vestry thereof. That, according to these plans, the compartments
for the reception of bodies dying from infectious complaints and bodies not
dying from infectious complaints are separate compartments. That the plans
include a room for post-mortem examinations. That the proposed Mortuary is
placed back fifty feet from the road on either side. That in the proposed Mortuary
there will be no Coroner's and Living Rooms. That the proposed Mortuary will be
highly beneficial to the moral and sanitary interests of the Parishioners and inhabitants
of the Parish, and its erection is, on all grounds, most desirable, And
whereas the said Petitioners have humbly besought our said Vicar-General, to decree
a Licence or Faculty for the purposes aforesaid and for the removal of any Coffins,
Tombstones, Graves, or Vaults (if any) which may be discovered, and which it may
be necessary to remove in the course of the erection thereof to some other part of
the churchyard. And whereas, by direction of our said Vicar-General a Notice or
Citation was duly served by affixing the same on the principal outer door of the
Parish Church of Saint Matthew, Bethnal Green, aforesaid, citing all persons having
or pretending to have any Interest to show cause why a Licence or Faculty should
not issue for the purposes aforesaid. And whereas our said Vicar-General rightly
and duly proceeding hath on the due execution and return of the said Notice or
Citation, and having on the Eleventh day of August last past first examined Alfred
Ewin, one of the Churchwardens, in support of the said Petition, Decreed a Licence
or Faculty to be granted to the Rector and Churchwardens and their successors in
office, to the intent and in manner, and subject to the provisoes and reservations
hereinafter appearing. Therefore we, the Bishop of London, well weighing and
considering the premises, do, by virtue of our authority, Ordinary and Episcopal,
and as far as in us lies, and by Law we may or can, ratify and confirm such Decree of
our said Vicar-General, and do hereby give and grant unto the Reverend Septimus
Cox Holmes Hansard, Clerk, the Rector, and George Henry Nicholson and Alfred
Ewin, the Churchwardens of the Parish of Saint Matthew, Bethnal Green, aforesaid
our Leave, Licence, or Faculty, authorizing them and their successors in office
to erect a Mortuary with a Post-mortem Room on a site midway between the
Church and the private pathway leading to the Rectory House, being about Twenty
feet from the said Pathway and fifty feet from the public Roads or Streets on
either side of the said Churchyard, and otherwise in accordance with the said Plans
annexed to the said Petition and filed in our Registry. Provided that the side
windows (if any) to the rooms appropriated for the reception of the dead Bodies and
for the Post-mortem examinations shall be made so as not to open; and provided
also that the Parishioners and inhabitants of the said Parish of Saint Matthew,
Bethnal Green, and the owners and occupiers of houses and premises in the neighbourhood
of the said Churchyard shall be at liberty at any time hereafter to apply
summarily on motion to the Court for a further Order for their protection against
any annoyance that may be created to the neighbourhood by the manner of the
admission of Dead Bodies into the said Mortuary, and otherwise in relation to the
management of the said Mortuary; and provided further that the Bodies or Remains
which require to be removed in erecting the said Mortuary with a Post-mortem
Room be so removed with the greatest care and decorum and deposited as near as
possible to their present position in some other part of the said Churchyard, and
that the Tombstones be also carefully removed and placed over the same. In