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Coffins
108 Do. Do. In narrow path on South Side of
Church Yard calculating there is room for three
in depth will hold 138
250 Do. Do. On South side of Church calculating
that there is room for two coffins in depth will
hold 250
There are
424 Grave Stones above ground with names upon them
which Graves will hold 574
45 Do. Do. not having any legible name under
most of which there are no coffins.
54 Grave Stones Buried having names upon them
most of which have no Coffins under
57 Do. Do. not having any names upon them the
same as last.
Resolved That a Copy of the said Report be transmitted to Mr.
E. Allen, Clerk to the Commissioners under the Act of Parliament
of the 46th Geo. 3d, Cap. 89., for the information of
the said Commissioners.
Resolved also That it be respectfully submitted to the said Commissioners
for the improvement of Westminster that as it
appears by the Report of the Committee appointed to
examine the state of the Church Yard, there is now room for
the funeral of 3045 Bodies, they do not therefore deem it
necessary to desist from burying therein as upon an average
of the number of Funerals which have taken place for the
past five years there will be room for further interments
nearly thirty years to come; and that from the natural decay
of bodies before the now vacant spaces are filled up, the
present Church Yard will admit of funerals for a much
longer period.
The Commissioners shortly afterwards stated, in reply to
a letter communicating the substance of the foregoing
resolution, that they would "abstain from any further proceedings
to obtain a grant from the Crown of the ground
near the Penitentiary in Tothill Fields for the use of the
parish as a Cementary."
Returning, as it were, to the interior of the Church and
the services therein, the Vestry are found purchasing books
for the use of the Ministers and Congregation, and volunteering
the conditional payment for a penance.
Wedy., 2nd Apl., 1690.—Ordd that upon producing the Parators
Bill the Church-wardens pay him only 6d. a piece for the
Prayer Books and that they pay him 13s. 4d. for a penance in