The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine . nothing is sewed with thread. They let it lye three or fourdays. Pope, in his Moral Essays (Ep., i., 246—251), when giving ex-amples of the ruling passion strong in death, thus refers to thecustom :— Odious ! in woollen ! twould a saint provoke,Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke:No, let a charming chintz and Brussels laceWrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face :One would not, sure, be frightful when ones dead:And—Betty—give this cheek a little red. The mistress was the celebrated Mrs. Oldfield; the maid, ,
The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine . nothing is sewed with thread. They let it lye three or fourdays. Pope, in his Moral Essays (Ep., i., 246—251), when giving ex-amples of the ruling passion strong in death, thus refers to thecustom :— Odious ! in woollen ! twould a saint provoke,Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke:No, let a charming chintz and Brussels laceWrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face :One would not, sure, be frightful when ones dead:And—Betty—give this cheek a little red. The mistress was the celebrated Mrs. Oldfield; the maid, , her friend, also a clever actress. It would seem that some were much too fashionable to complywith this regulation about burying in woollen; and in these casesit was, I believe, the custom that a servant of the household, orsomeone to whom it was desired to offer a gratuity, should go andgive the information that the law had not been complied with, andreceive half of the penalty; while the other half of the five poundswas distributed to the 17 % Cfjurc| of p Mntz, partiit, Wilts. By C. E. Posting, p^KpHIS Church is one of very great archaeological interest, and*ne structure has been little interfered with by recent resto-ration. The plan consists of chancel and nave with a north aisle(or chapel) to both, a chapel and a porch on the south of the nave,and a western tower with spire. The westernmost part of the nave was the entire nave of a smallNorman Church, the walls of which have been modified by subse-quent alterations, but not demolished, and it forms the nucleus ofthe present Church. The limits of this nave can be clearly tracedby a quoin on the north side near the aisle; it was about 24ft. by17ft. inside the walls, and the height is indicated by the drip courseon the tower. The nave had the usual arrangement of a doorwayboth on the north and the south, in about the centre of its length,and the evidence of these is strong corroboration of that afforde
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