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3682 thereto as to your Majesty, in your royal wisdom, KNARESBOROTJGH. — Forthwith in Knares- shall seem meet." borough Church and also in the Churchyard, except in now existing vaults and walled Her Majesty having taken the said represen- graves which can be opened without dis- tation, together with the map or plan thereunto turbing soil which has been buried in, and annexed, into consideration, was pleased, by and in which each coffin shall be embedded in with the advice of Her Privy Council, to approve powdered charcoal and separately entombed, thereof, and to order, and it is hereby ordered, and in family graves which can be opened to that the proposed assignment of a particular dis- the depth of five feet without the disturbance trict to the consecrated church of the Holy Trinity, of remains, and in graves which have never situate at Waltham Cross, in the parish of Ches- been previously opened, in which one body hunt be accordingly made, and that the recom- only shall be buried; also forthwith in the mendations of the said Commissioners in respect Independent Chapel and burial-ground. of the publication of banns and the solemnization WHITTLESEY.—Forthwith in St. Mary's Church, of marriages, baptisms, and churchings, in the said and from and after the first January, one church, and the fees to arise therefrora, be carried thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the into effect agreeably to the provisions of the said Old Churchyard, and that the New Burial- Acts; and Her Majesty is further pleased to direct ground be drained to the depth of six feet that this Order be forthwith registered by the and a half, at the least; forthwith in St. An- Registrar of the diocese of Rochester. drew's Church, and from and after the first C. C. Greville. January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in St. Andrew's Churchyard, and in the burial-grounds of the Independent [The following Order in Council is substituted and Baptist Chapels, in the parish of St. for that which appeared in the Gazette of Andrew. Friday last, the 28th ultimo.] TWICKENHAM.—Forthwith in the Parish Church T the Court at Balmoral, the 24th day of of Twickenham, and also in the churchyard September, 1855, and Old Burial-ground; and that in the New Burial-ground, except in family vaults and PRESENT, graves, only one body be buried in each The QUEEN's Most ExceUent Majesty in Council. grave. BLECHINGLEY. — Forthwith in the Parish HEREAS the Right Honourable Sir George Church, and from and after the first Sep- W Grey, Bart., one of Her Majesty's Prin- tember, one thousand eight hundred and fifty- cipal Secretaries of State, after giving to the six in the churchyard. Incumbents and the Churchwardens of the parishes CHESTERFIELD. — Forthwith in the Parish hei'einafter mentioned, ten days' previous notice Church of Chesterfield, in Holy Trinity of his intention to make such representation, has, Church, and in the Independent and Wesleyan under the provisions of an Act, passed in the Chapels; and from and after the first Jan- session of Parliament, held in the sixteenth uary, one thousand eight hundred and fifty- and seventeenth years of Her Majesty's reign, seven, in the Parish Churchyard, except in intituled " An Act to amend the laws con- now existing walled graves, which can be " cerning the burial of the dead in England opened without the disturbance of soil which " beyond the limits of the metropolis, and has been buried in, for the burial of the hus- " to amend the Act concerning the burial of bands, wives, parents, or unmarried children " the dead in the metropolis," made a repre- of those previously buried therein, every sentation stating that, for the protection of the coffin to be embedded in powdered charcoal public health, no new burial-ground should be and separately entombed in an air-tight opened in any of the undermentioned parishes manner; also forthwith in Holy Trinity without the previous approval of one of Her Ma- Churchyard except so far as is compatible jesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and that with the observance of the regulations for burials should be discontinued therein, with the new burial-grounds. following modifications; WALSALL.—From and after the first of June, GAINSBOROUGH.—Forthwith within three yards one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in of all dwelling houses in Holy Trinity Church- the Parish Churchyard of St. Matthew, and yard, iu the parish of Gainsborough, and that in the Parish Burial-ground in Bath-street, except in family vaults and graves only one except in now existing vaults, which can be body be buried in each grave; forthwith opened without the disturbance of soil which within three yards of all dwelling houses and has been buried in, and in which each coffin of the west boundary wall in the Friends' shall be embedded in powdered charcoal and Burial-ground; and from and after the first separately entombed in an air-tight manner; September, one thousand eight hundred and and forthwith in the Churchyard of St. fifty-six, in the Parish Churchyard. Peters, and in the Roman Catholic Burial- WRAWBY, LINCOLNSHIRE.—Forthwith in the ground, Walsall, except in now existing Parish Church of Wrawby, and in the Inde- vaults, used with the above-mentioned pre- pendent Chapel, Brigg, in the same parish; cautions, and in graves subject to the obser- and from and after the first September, one vance of the following regulations, viz.:— thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the 1st. That no coffin be placed in any grave or parish churchyard .and in the Independent vault in which water accumulates. 2nd. That Chapel Burial-ground. no new grave be formed within half a yard of ALFORD, LINCOLNSHIRE. — Forthwith in the any other grave or less than five feet and a Parish Church and in the Old Churchyard, half deep. 3rd. That no grave be re-opened Alford, and in the Independent Chapel, except now existing family graves, which can Alford; in the Cemetery, within three yards be opened without the exposure of remains. of dwelling-houses, and in the Independent Chapel Burial-ground within three yards of Now, therefore, Her Majesty in Council is the chapel. pleased hereby to give notice of such representa-.