W. J. BERNHARD SMITH.

Temple.

_Burial in Unconsecrated Ground_ (Vol. vi., p. 448.; Vol. viii., p.

43.).--The following curious entry occurs in the parish register of

Pimperne, Dorset:

"Anno 1627. Vicesimo quinto Octobris.

"Peregrinus quidam tempore pestes in communi campo mortuus eodem loco

quo inventus sepultus."

There was a pestilence in England in 1625. In 1628 sixteen thousand persons

died of the plague at Lyons.

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