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the churchyard of St. Martin's. Forthwith in the church of St. Thomas, Haverfordwest. In the church of St. Mary, and in St. Mary's Old Churchyard, Haverfordwest, and on and after the first October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven (except in graves which are free from water and from remains, and not less than five feet deep), in the additional churchyard or burial-ground of St. Mary's, Haverfordwest. PRENDERGAST.- In Prendergast Church, Haverfordwest; and on and after the first October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven (except in graves which are free from water and from remains, and not less than five feet deep), in the churchyard of Prendergast. HOLYWELL, FLINTSHIRE.-In the parish church of Holywell, and in the Independent Chapel and Chapelyard; and (except in now existing vaults and brick graves which can be opened without the disturbance of soil that has been buried in, and in which each coffin shall be embedded in charcoal and separately entombed in an airtight manner), in the parish churchyard; and likewise in Bagillt Churchyard, and in the New Cemetery of Holywell, with the above exceptions, and except in other graves used in accordance with the following regulations, viz., no coffin to be buried less than four feet below the surface, one body only to be buried in a grave, no grave to be opened within a period of fourteen years, unless to bury another member of the same family, in which case half a yard in thickness of soil shall be left above the previously buried coffin, no grave to be used which is not free from water. ALDERSHOTT.-In the parish churchyard of Aldershott, except in graves where a covering of four feet of earth at least be left above the upper surface of the coffin, measuring to the general level of the ground.

At the Court at Windsor, the 29th day of December, 1856.

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to order that the time for the discontinuance of burials in the undermentioned churchyards and burial-grounds be postponed as follows, viz.:—

In the churchyard of the parish of ASTON, near Rotherham, from the first of January to the thirty-first of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; in the churchyard of BALDOCK, Herts, from the first of January to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyseven; in the new burial-ground of the parish of BANGOR, from the first of January to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyseven; in the parish churchyard, and in the Independent, Baptist, and Wesleyan Chapelyards, BATLEY, Yorkshire, from the first of January to the first of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; in the parish churchyard of St. Peter, BENGEWORTH, from the first of January to the first of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; in Trinity Churchyard, St. Paul's Churchyard, and St. John's Churchyard, in the township of BLACKBURN, in the burial-grounds of the Independent Chapel, of the Wesleyan Methodist Association, and of the Baptist Chapel (Town's Moor), in the Quakers' Burial-ground, and in the burialground of St. Alban's Roman Catholic Chapel, all in the said township, from the first of January to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; in the churchyard of the parish of BOCKING, Essex, from the first of January to the twelfth of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; in the parish churchyard of CHELMSFORD, from the

first of January to the first of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; in the western portion of the churchyard of St. Paul's, CHICHESTER, from the first of January next to the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight; in the churchyard of the parish of St. Paul, DEPTFORD, from the first of January to the first of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, on condition that no burials take place in the part of the churchyard lying to the west of the church, nor within four yards of the walls of the church; and that one body only be buried in each grave; in the new part of St. Mary's Churchyard, EASTBOURNE, from the first of January to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; in the Old Churchyard of the parish of St. Thomas the Apostle, EXETER, from the first of January to the first of February, cne thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; in the burial-ground of GREENWICH HOSPITAL, from the first of January to the first of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; in the parish churchyard and in the burial-grounds of the Wesleyan and Independent Chapels, HOCKLIFFE, Beds, from the first of December instant to the first of March, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyseven; in the parish churchyard, KEIGHLEY, in the burial-grounds of the Independent Chapel, of the Bethel Baptist Chapel, and of the Roman Catholic Chapel, and in the Quakers' Burial-ground in that parish, from the first of January to the first of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; in the new part of the parish churchyard of NORTHWOOD, in the Isle of Wight, from the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight to the

first of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two; in the churchyard of the parish of POCKLINGTON, in the county of York, from the first of January to the fifth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; in the parish churchyard of ROMSEY, Hants, from the twenty-fourth of December instant to the first of April, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyseven; in the churchyards of St. Giles and St. Mary, and in the burial-grounds of the Baptist and Independent Chapels, STONEY STRATFORD, from the thirty-first of December instant to the thirty-first of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; in the churchyard of St. Gregory, SUDBURY, from the first January to the thirty-first of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; in TEWKESBURY ABBEY Churchyard, from the first of January to the first of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; in the parish churchyard, in the burial-ground of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and in Brook-street Burialground, TOTTENHAM, from the first of January to the first of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; in the parish churchyard, in St. Paul's Churchyard, in the old and new churchyards of St. James Latchford, in St. Alban's Roman Catholic Burial-ground, and in the burial-grounds of Cairo-street Chapel, and of Friars-green Chapel, all in the borough of WARRINGTON, from the first of January to the twenty-fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; in the new parish burialground, and in Bechen Chapel Burial-ground, in the parish of WATFORD, Herts, from the first of January to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; in the churchyard of the parish of WHEATLEY, Oxfordshire,

from the first of January to the first of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; in the New Synagogue, Jewish burial-ground, in the parish of St. Mary, WHITECHAPEL, from the first of February to the first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven ; in the churchyard of NEW WINDSOR, in the burial-ground of the Baptist Chapel, and in the Acre Burial-ground, in Windsor, from the first of January to the first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; in the parish churchyard and in the burial-grounds of the old and new Independent Chapels at WIVENHOE, Essex, from the first of February to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty

seven.

And whereas, by an Order in Council of the eleventh of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, burials were directed to be discontinued in the church of St. Matthew, Holbeck, in LEEDS, from and after the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and such time has since been extended to the thirty-first of December instant, 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 interment be discontinued in the said churchyard on and after the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, within twenty feet of any building, and in the rest of the churchyard, except in vaults and graves not less than five feet deep, which can be opened without the disturbance of remains, interments be wholly discontinued on and after the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.

And whereas by an Order in Council of the eleventh of December, one thousand eight hundred

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