Produced by Mary Glenn Krause, Eric Lehtonen, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE LONDON BURIAL GROUNDS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: Author’s Mark] [Illustration: ST. PETER’S, CORNHILL, IN 1817.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The London Burial Grounds NOTES ON THEIR HISTORY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY BY MRS. BASIL HOLMES “Thou that intendest to the Church to Day, Come take a turn or two, before thou go’st. In the Churchyard; the Walk is in the way. Who takes best heed in going, hasteth most: But he that unprepared rashly ventures, Hastens perhaps to seal his Death’s Indentures” GEORGE HERBERT ILLUSTRATED LONDON T. FISHER UNWIN MDCCCXCVI ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [All rights reserved.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ “First learn to love one living man; Then may’st thou think upon the dead.” Wordsworth. TO THOSE WHO LOVE THE LIVING I Dedicate THESE DETAILS OF THE DWELLINGS OF THE DEAD. “October sheds the leaf and April brings it; So one flower fadeth and another springs; Earth renovates itself.” H. Bonar. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE INTRODUCTION 13 I. BRITISH AND ROMAN BURYING-PLACES 23 II. THE GRAVEYARDS OF PRIORIES AND 30 CONVENTS III. THE CATHEDRAL, THE ABBEY, THE 53 TEMPLE, AND THE TOWER IV. THE CITY CHURCHYARDS 74 V. LONDON CHURCHYARDS, OUTSIDE THE 90 CITY VI. PEST-FIELDS AND PLAGUE-PITS 117 VII. THE DISSENTERS’ BURIAL-GROUNDS 133 VIII. BURIAL-PLACES OF FOREIGNERS IN 153 LONDON