Date sent: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 11:28:36 -0400
Subject: RE: body snatching (was: burial)
From: "Tuten, Belle (TUTEN)" <[log in to unmask]>
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I have looked at some incidents in which bodies were stolen from
churchyards to ensure that monopolies on parish burials were maintained.
My examples are all French - are there English examples?
bt
Belle S. Tuten ([log in to unmask])
History Department, Juniata College
Huntingdon, PA 16652
(814) 641-3536
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Cf. M. Brett, The English Church under Henry I (Oxford 1975), 98-9; W.W. Capes,
ed. Charters and Records of Hereford Cathedral (Cantilupe Society, Hereford,
1908), 44 (I'm about to publish a new edition of the second item in St Davids
Episcopal Acta, South Wales Record Society vol. 13, no. 61).
These are the two I know best, but I think there are probably others.
Julia Barrow
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