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Lych gate

Lych gate, the gate into a churchyard, with a roof or awning hung on posts over it to cover the body brought for burial, when

God's acre

God's acre, a churchyard.

Brawling

Brawling [fr. brailler, Fr., to brawl], the offence of quarrelling, or creating a disturbance in the church or churchyard, punished by 5 & 6 Edw. 4, c. 4 [partly repealed by 9 Geo. 4, c. 31, s.

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Faculties, Court of

as a licence to marry, a faculty to erect an organ in a parish church, to level a churchyard, to remove bodies previously buried, 4 Inst. 337. The Master of the Faculties (Magister ad facultates) appoints Ecclesiastical

Consecrate

Consecrate, to dedicate to sacred purposes, as a bishop by imposition of hands, or a church or churchyard by prayers, etc., Conscration is performed by a bishop or archbishop. See BISHOP.

Cemetery

Cemetery [fr. Koimhthriou, Gk., fr. Koim'w, to set to sleep], a place of burial differing from a churchyard by its locality and incidents; by its locality, as it is separate and apart from any parochial church,

Atrium

Atrium, a Court before a house, or a churchyard, Blount

Cemetery

A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead a graveyard a churchyard a necropolis

Wynton, Statute of

(13 Edw. 1, st. 2, AD 1285). Chapter 6, which prohibits the holding of fairs and markets in churchyards, is still in force. The remaining chapters were repealed as to England by the Criminal Law Act, 1827,

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