THE LONDON BURIAL GROUNDS
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
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“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.