"À la Madeleine [July 22], Les noix sont pleines." "À la Saint-Laurent [Aug. 10], La faucille au froment." "Passé la Saint-Clément [Nov. 23?], Ne sème plus le froment." "Si le soleil rit le jour Sainte-Eulalie [Dec. 10], Il y aura pommes et cidre à folie." "À la Sainte-Luce [Dec. 13?], Les jours croissent du saut d'une puce." "À la Saint-Thomas [Dec. 21], Les jours sont au plus bas." EDGAR MACCULLOCH. Guernsey. VAULT INTERMENTS (Vol. ii., p. 21.): BURIAL IN AN ERECT POSTURE (Vol. viii., pp. 329. 630.): INTERMENT OF THE TROGLODITÆ (Vol. ii., p. 187.). In the 4th book of Evelyn's _Sylva_ there is much interesting matter on this subject, besides what has been quoted above; and, to those herein interested, the following extract from Burn's _History of Parish Registers in England_ will doubtless be acceptable: "Many great and good men have entertained scruples on the practice of interment in churches. The example of the virtuous and primitive confessor, Archbishop Sancroft, who ordered himself to be buried in the churchyard of Fresingfield in Suffolk, thinking it improper that the house of God should be made the repository of sinful man, ought to command the imitation of less deserving persons: perhaps it had an influence over the mind of his successor, Archbishop Secker, who ordered himself to be buried in the churchyard of Lambeth. The Bishops of London in succession, from Bishop Compton to Bishop Hayter, who died in 1762, inclusive, have been buried in Fulham Churchyard."[1] Of the same opinion were Dr. Edward Rainbow, Bishop of Carlisle; Sir Matthew Hale, who used to say that churches were for the living and to churchyards for the dead[2]; Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich, who "did not hold God's house a meet repository for the greatest saint;" and William Bedell, Bishop of Kilmore, who made a canon in his synod to the following effect: "IX. Ut corpora defunctorum deinceps in Ecclesiis non humentur, sed nec intra quintum pedem a pariete extrorsum." Sir Thomas Latymer, of Braibroke in Northamptonshire, by his will directed thus: I, Thomas Latymer of Braybroke, a fals knyghte to God, &c., my wrecchyd body to be buried where that ever I die in the next chirche yerde, God vouchsafe, and naut in the chirche, but in the utterist corner, as he that is unworthy to lyn therein, save the merci of God." {279}