_Burial of unclaimed Corpse._--In the parish of Markshall, near Norwich, is
a piece of land now belonging to the adjoining village of Keswick.
Tradition states that it was once a part of Markshall Heath; but, at the
enclosure, the parishioners of Keswick claimed and obtained it, because
some years before they had interred the body of a murdered man found there;
the expenses of whose funeral the rate-payers of Markshall had inhumanly
refused to defray. I think I have somewhere read a similar statement
respecting a portion of Battersea Fields. Can either of these cases be
authenticated; or is there any law or custom which would assign a portion
of a common to a parish which paid for the burial of a corpse found on it?