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" Sussex, lately deceased, was not put in, wrapt up, or wound up, or buried in any shirt, shift, sheet, or shroud, made or mingled with flax, hemp, silk, hair, gold, or silver, or other than what is made of sheep's wool only... "
The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal - Page 446
1907
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Sheffield in the Eighteenth Century

Robert Eadon Leader - 1901 - 376 pages
...(3o Car. II. c. 3) which decreed that no corpse must be buried in any shirt, shift, sheet, or shroud, or mingled with flax, hemp, silk, hair, gold or silver, or any stuff other than is made of sheep's wool, or be put in any coffin lined with any material not made of sheep's...
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The Snell Exhibitions: From the University of Glasgow to Balliol College, Oxford

William Innes Addison - 1901 - 248 pages
...Corps of any " Person or Persons shall be buried in any Shirt, Shift, Sheet or Shroud, or any thing whatsoever " made or mingled with Flax, Hemp, Silk, Hair, Gold or Silver, or in any Stuff or Thing, other " than what is made of Sheeps Wool only, or be put in any Coffin lined...
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The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society, Volumes 17-19

1920 - 452 pages
...inforce from Aug. I, 1678, from thence no corpse must be interred in any shirt, shift, sheet or shroud made or mingled with flax, hemp, silk, hair, gold or silver or any stuff other than is made of sheeps wool, or be put into any coffin, lead faced, with anything but made of...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 296

1904 - 636 pages
...said Law, the same hath hitherto not had the effect thereby intended," and goes on to say that nothing made or " mingled with flax, hemp, silk, hair, gold, or silver, or any other thing whatsoever than what is made of Sheep's wooll onely " should be used." This is interesting...
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Lodowick Carliell: His Life, a Discussion of His Plays, and "The Deserving ...

Lodowick Carlell - 1905 - 188 pages
...whereby it was enacted that, after August 1, 1678, no corpse should be buried in any shirt, shift, sheet, or shroud, or anything whatsoever made or mingled with flax, hemp, silk, hair, gold, or silver, or in any stuff or thing other than what is made of sheep's wool only, under penalty of £$ ; and an affidavit...
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Lodowick Carliell: His Life, a Discussion of His Plays, and "The Deserving ...

Lodowick Carlell - 1905 - 188 pages
...shroud, or anything whatsoever made or mingled with flax, hemp, silk, hair, gold, or silver, or in any stuff or thing other than what is made of sheep's wool only, under penalty of £5; and an affidavit was to be made, within eight days after the burial, that the...
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The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 29

1905 - 578 pages
...of. lately Deceased, was not put, wrapt, or wound up, or Buried in any Shirt, Shift, Sheet or Shroud, made or mingled with Flax, Hemp, Silk, Hair, Gold or Silver, or other than what is made of Sheep's Wool only ; nor in any Coffin lin'd or faced with any Cloth, Stuff,...
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Notes on the Parish of Mylor, Cornwall

Hugh P. Olivey - 1907 - 308 pages
...other than what is made of sheep's wool only, or in any coffin lined or faced with any cloth stuff or anything whatsoever made or mingled with flax, hemp, silk, hair, gold or silver, or any other material but sheep's wool only." This affidavit must be made within eight days after the interment,...
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Old Hanging Ditch: Its Trades, Its Traders and Its Renaissance

Henry Broadhurst Wilkinson - 1910 - 330 pages
...Acts of 1670 and 1678 determine that ' No corps of any person shall be buried in any shirt, shift, sheet, or shroud, or anything whatsoever, made or...thing, other than what is made of sheep's wool only,' under penalty of ,£5 of lawful money of England." The only exception from this being in case of plague....
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The Parish Registers of England

John Charles Cox - 1910 - 404 pages
...lately deceased, was not put in, wrapt up, or wound up, or buried in any shirt, shift, sheet, or shroud, made or mingled with flax, hemp, silk, hair, gold, or silver, or other than what is made of sheep's wool only; nor in any coffin lined or faced with any cloth, stuff,...
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