Seasonable considerations on the indecent and dangerous custom of burying in churches and church-yards. With remarkable observations historical and philosophical ... Proving, that the custom is not only contrary to the practice of the ancients, but fatal, in case of infection / [Anon].
- Thomas Lewis
- Date:
- 1721
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Seasonable considerations on the indecent and dangerous custom of burying in churches and church-yards. With remarkable observations historical and philosophical ... Proving, that the custom is not only contrary to the practice of the ancients, but fatal, in case of infection / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Of the TUR KS. ^ t^ie Turks it is obferved in genera], that they bury not in Towns and Villages : P| O Ip And Cotovicus (a) allures us, That that ^3;^!5^|C Favour of being buried in a City, is granted only to great Perfons, to the San- tom, and other Princes. And Thavenot (b) fays, That the Burial-Place at Grand Cairo in <i/E- gjpt is very large on the River-lide, not far from Old Cair. And concerning Conftantinople, he has thefe Words; u Their Burying - Places are always with- <c out the Town, that the Air might net be infe<3> “ ed by the corrupt Vapours that rife out of the <c Graves: And that was always obferved by the cc Antients.- The Turkifb Burial-Places cc are commonly by the Highway-fides, that Travel “ lers may remember to pray to G o d for them. M $ (^) Cotovicus Itin. pag. 156. (b) Thavenot’j Travels, P. 1. Lib. 2. cap. 12. p. 145. (c) Idem P, 1. cap. 43. p. 58.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3035965x_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
