The great Sir Matthew Hale was always very much against burying in churches, and used to say, “that churches were for the living, and the church-yards for the dead.” He himself was interred in the church-yard of Alderley, in Gloucestershire.
In Mold church, in Flintshire, is an epitaph on Dr. William Wynne, written by himself; in which are these words:
In conformity to an ancient usage,
From a proper regard to decency,
And a concern for the health
of his fellow-creatures,
He was moved to give particular directions for being buried in the adjoining church-yard,
“and not in the church.”