_Burial in unconsecrated Ground_ (Vol. vi., p. 448.; Vol. viii., p.
43.).--The late elegant and accomplished Sir W. Temple, though he laid
not his whole body in his garden, deposited the better part of it (his
heart) there; "and if my executors will gratify me in what I have
desired, I wish my corpse may be interred as I have bespoke them; not at
all out of singularity, or for want of a dormitory (of which there is
an ample one annexed to the parish church), but for other reasons not
necessary here to trouble the reader with, what I have said in general
being sufficient. However, let them order as they think fit, so it be not
_in the church or chancel_." (Evelyn's _Sylva_, book iv.)
"In the north aisle of the chancel [of Wotton Church] is the
burying-place of the Evelyns (within which is lately made,
under a decent arched chapel, a vault). In the chancel on the
north side is a tomb, about three feet high, of freestone,
shaped like a coffin; on the top, on white marble, is this
inscription:
'Here lies the Body
of JOHN EVELYN, Esq.'"[8]
This inscription commemorates the author of _Sylva_, and evinces how
unobsequiously obsequies are sometimes solemnised.