The London Burial Grounds
by Isabella M. Holmes
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About this eBook
- Author
- Holmes, Isabella M.
- Title
- The London Burial Grounds Notes on Their History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
- Credits
- Produced by Mary Glenn Krause, Eric Lehtonen, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
- Subject
- Cemeteries -- England -- London -- History
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 56832
- Release Date
- March 24, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE LONDON BURIAL GROUNDS
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.INTRODUCTION
- 5.CHAPTER I BRITISH AND ROMAN BURIAL-PLACES.
- 6.CHAPTER II THE GRAVEYARDS OF PRIORIES AND CONVENTS.
- 7.CHAPTER III THE CATHEDRAL, THE ABBEY, THE TEMPLE, AND THE TOWER.
- 8.CHAPTER IV. THE CITY CHURCHYARDS.
- 9.CHAPTER V LONDON CHURCHYARDS, OUTSIDE THE CITY.
- 10.CHAPTER VI PEST-FIELDS AND PLAGUE-PITS.
- 11.CHAPTER VII THE DISSENTERS’ BURIAL-GROUNDS.
- 12.CHAPTER VIII THE BURIAL-PLACES OF FOREIGNERS IN LONDON.
- 13.CHAPTER IX HOSPITAL, ALMSHOUSE, AND WORKHOUSE GROUNDS.
- 14.CHAPTER X PRIVATE AND PROMISCUOUS CEMETERIES.
- 15.CHAPTER XI THE CLOSING OF THE BURIAL-GROUNDS AND VAULTS.
- 16.CHAPTER XII GRAVEYARDS AS PUBLIC GARDENS.
- 17.CHAPTER XIII THE CEMETERIES STILL IN USE.
- 18.CHAPTER XIV A FORECAST OF THE FUTURE.
- 19.APPENDIX A.
- 20.APPENDIX B.
- 21.APPENDIX C.
- 22.APPENDIX D.
- 23.APPENDIX E.
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