Acre Burial-ground, in Windsor, from the first of August next, to the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 28th day of July, 1856.

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

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Whereas by an Act, passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled "An Act further "amend the laws concerning the burial of the "dead in England," it is, amongst other things, enacted that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, from time to time, to postpone the time appointed by any Order in Council for the discontinuance of burials, or otherwise to vary any Order in Council made under under any of the Acts recited in the said Act, or under the said Act (whether the time thereby appointed for the discontinuance of burials thereunder, or other operation of such Order, shall or shall not have arrived), as to Her Majesty, with such advice as aforesaid, may seem fit;

And whereas by an Order in Council of the thirteenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, burials were directed to be discontinued in the Quakers' burial-ground at BLACKBURN, from and after the first of May then next, and such time has since been postponed to the first of May last, and it seems fit that the said order be varied; now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, in lieu thereof, that burials be discontinued in the said burial-ground, except in ground which has never

been previously buried in, and which is more than ten feet from any building.

And whereas by an Order in Council of the thirty-first of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, burials were directed to be discontinued from and after the first of October in that year, in the Primitive Methodist burial-ground, near Daisy Hill, Manningham, BRADFORD, in the County of York, and it seems fit that the said order be varied; now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice aforesaid, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, in lieu thereof, that burials be discontinued in the said burial-ground, except in vaults and graves which can be opened without the exposure of remains, and in which each coffin shall be imbedded in powdered charcoal and separately entombed in an air-tight manner.

And whereas by an Order in Council of the eighteenth of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, burials were directed to be discontinued in the burial-ground of the Independent Chapel, COGGESHALL, Essex, from and after the first of August then next, and such date has since been extended to the first of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and it seems fit that the said Order be varied; now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice aforesaid, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the use of the following vaults in the said burialground may still be allowed, after the said first of September, provided that the said vaults, when required, be opened without disturbing soil that has been already buried in, and that each coffin be embedded in a layer of powdered charcoal, four inches thick, and be separately entombed in an air-tight manner; viz.: one vault belonging to F. U. Patterson, Esq., opened in one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five; two vaults belonging

to the Unwin family, opened in one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three and one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four; and one vault belonging to Charles Moore, Esq., opened in one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

And whereas by an Order in Council of the eighteenth of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, burials were directed to be discontinued in part of the Wesleyan Chapel General Cemetery, Cheetham Hill, in the parish of MANCHESTER, and regulated in the rest of such Cemetery, and directed to be wholly discontinued therein (except in then existing private vaults and graves) from the first of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and it seems fit that the said Order be varied; now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice aforesaid, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, in lieu thereof, that interment in the said cemetery be discontinued, except in family vaults and graves; that no grave be less than five feet deep, and no coffin be placed within a foot of any other coffin, unless in a vault or brick grave, in which each coffin shall be imbedded in charcoal, and separately entombed in an air-tight manner.

And whereas by an Order in Council of the eleventh of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, burials were directed to be discontinued from the first of May then next, in the churchyard of MILTON, next Gravesend, and it seems fit that the said Order be varied; now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice aforesaid, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that interments may take place in now existing vaults and brick graves, in the said churchyard, provided that such vaults and brick graves, when required, be opened without disturbing soil that has been already buried in; that

each coffin be embedded in a layer of powdered charcoal, four inches thick, and be separately entombed in an air-tight manner; and that the only bodies interred be those of the husbands, wives, parents, unmarried children, and brothers and sisters of those already buried therein.

And whereas by an Order in Council of the eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, certain Regulations were made in respect of burials in the churchyard of St. Michael, PEMBROKE, and by another Order in Council of the twenty-fourth of June last, other regulations were made in lieu thereof, and it seems fit that the said last-mentioned Order be varied; now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice aforesaid. is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the words in the said Order of the twentyfourth of June last, contained, viz. "unless to bury another member of the same family, in which case a layer of earth, a foot thick, is to be left between the coffins," be, and the same are hereby repealed, so far as they regard the said churchyard of St. Michael, Pembroke.

And whereas by an Order in Council of the eighteenth of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, burials were directed to be discontinued from and after the first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the churchyard of St. Gregory, SUDBURY, in the county of Suffolk, and it seems fit that the said Order be varied; now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice aforesaid, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, in lieu thereof, that the ancient part of the said churchyard remain closed, with the exception of now existing vaults and brick graves which can be opened without disturbing soil that has been already buried in, the

use of which will be permitted until the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyseven, on condition that each coffin to be interred, be embedded in a layer of powdered charcoal, four inches thick, and be separately entombed in an air-tight manner; and that burials may be continued until the said first of January next, in the new portion of the said churchyard, provided that, with the exception of family vaults and graves, one body only be buried in a grave, and that with the same exception, no grave be re-opened,

And whereas by two Orders in Council of the twenty-ninth of March, and eighth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, burials were directed to be discontinued from and after the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfive, in the churchyards of All Saints and St. Catherine, WIGAN, and in the burial-grounds attached to the Independent Chapel, Standishgate, to the Presbyterian Chapel, to St. Mary's Roman Catholic Chapel, Standishgate, to Lord-street Chapel, and to St. John's Roman Catholic Chapel, Standishgate, in the said borough, and such time has since been extended to the first of September next, and it seems fit that the said Orders be varied; now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice aforesaid, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the following words be added to the said two Orders in respect of the abovementioned churchyards and burial-grounds in Wigan, viz.: "except in vaults and brick graves for the burial of the husband, wife, parents, and children, of persons already interred therein, in which case each coffin shall be imbedded in charcoal, and separately entombed in an air-tight manner."

Wm. L. Bathurst.