. Hierurgia anglicana; documents and extracts illustrative of the ceremonial of the Anglican church after the reformation . 0. 1835. 1783 * A mahogany three legd Candle stick w a brassSocket for funeral service, js. 6d. A Paste-board with the funeral Service borderedwith Black Ribbon, is. 6d. —Churchwardens Accts., Bledlow, Bucks, March 19, 1783- 1846 We shall now only briefly instance a few of the manyancient customs that remain in different places, withrespect to funerals. . Processions are obviously naturalat funerals; at those of great men, music, banners, andthe like, are commonly used; a
. Hierurgia anglicana; documents and extracts illustrative of the ceremonial of the Anglican church after the reformation . 0. 1835. 1783 * A mahogany three legd Candle stick w a brassSocket for funeral service, js. 6d. A Paste-board with the funeral Service borderedwith Black Ribbon, is. 6d. —Churchwardens Accts., Bledlow, Bucks, March 19, 1783- 1846 We shall now only briefly instance a few of the manyancient customs that remain in different places, withrespect to funerals. . Processions are obviously naturalat funerals; at those of great men, music, banners, andthe like, are commonly used; and in colleges, the choirin surplices precede the corpse, chanting as they are burnt without scruple, while persons of ranklie in state. In South Wales we have seen a young girlborne to her grave on a bier by other maidens dressedin white, and singing as they went. The same practice,with the exception in some cases of the singing, obtainsin very many parts of England. We have ourselves metwith it in distant counties. The using a pall with a whiteborder in the case of a young person, and the universal. ???^.??-;. h
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