Hugh Jones, that conservative son of the church, lamented that the Virginians did not prefer to lie in the church-yard for their last long sleep. "It is customary," he says regretfully, "to bury in garden, or orchards, where whole families lye interred together, in a spot, generally handsomely enclosed, planted with evergreens, and the graves kept decently. Hence, likewise, arises the occasion of preaching funeral sermons in houses where, at funerals, are assembled a great congregation of neighbors and friends; and if you insist on having the service and ceremony at church, they'll say they will be without it, unless performed after their own manner." Here we have a flash of the spirit of resistance to undue encroachments from church or state, which flamed up half a century later into open revolt. There is something touching in this clinging to the home round which so many memories cluster, in this desire to lay the dead there close to all they had loved, and when their own time came, to lie down beside them under the shadow of the old walls which had sheltered their infancy, and youth, and age. If the burying-grounds were cheerful, still more so were the funerals. They partook, in fact, of the nature of an Irish wake. Wine was freely drunk, and funeral baked meats demolished, while the firing of guns was so common that many asked by will that it be omitted, as friends to-day are "kindly requested to omit flowers." The funeral expenses of a gentleman of Baltimore town in the eighteenth century were somewhat heavy, as any one may judge from an itemized account preserved to us, which includes: "Coffin £6 16s, 41 yds. crape, 32 yds. black Tiffany, 11 yds. black crape, 5-1/2 broadcloth, 7-1/2 yards of black Shaloon, 16-1/2 yds. linen, 3 yds. sheeting, 3 doz. pairs men's black silk gloves, 2 doz. pairs women's do., 6 pairs men's blk. gloves (cheaper), 1 pr. women's do., black silk handkerchiefs, 8-1/2 yards calamanco, mohair and buckram, 13-1/2 yds. ribbon, 47-1/2 lbs. loaf sugar, 14 doz. eggs, 10 oz. nutmegs, 1-1/2 pounds alspice, 20-5/8 gallons white wine, 12 bottles red wine, 10-3/8 gallons rum." The total cost of these preparations amounts to upward of fifty pounds sterling, besides the two pounds to be paid to Dame Hannah Gash and Mr. Ireland for attendance, while ten shillings additional were allowed for "coffin furniture." When a Thomas Jefferson, ancestor of _the_ Thomas Jefferson, died in Virginia in 1698, his funeral expenses included the items: To Benj. Branch for a Mutton for the funerall 60lbs. tobacco. To Ann Carraway and Mary Harris for mourning Rings £1 To Sam'll Branch for makeing y{e} coffin 10{s} For plank for y{e} coffin 2{s} 6{d}