Abbey in 1002 Miss Burne mentions. Ethelred's charter has not been printed, but it is mentioned in the second volume of the Reports of the Historical MSS. Commission.
University College, Reading.
Burial of Amputated Limbs.
(Ante, p. 105.)
The following extract is from the Sun newspaper of March 3rd, 1799:—
"The Sexton of a Parish Church in Shropshire lately established a curious kind of apportionment; he insisted upon a poor man, who had lost its leg by amputation, paying sixteen pence for burying it. The Pauper appealed to the Rector, who said that he could not reheve him in the present case; but he would consider it in his fees when the remainder of his body came to be buried."
Crosses Cut in Turf after Fatal Accidents.
Winkworth Hollow near Hascombe (Surrey) is a long steep hill, the scene of many bad accidents. A cross is kept cut in the roadside turf to mark the spot where a carter was killed about eighteen years ago. Another large cross is cut in Hascombe Park, where a man was killed by a tree falling off his timber-cart; this also happened in L. B.'s childhood,—(my informant L. B. is now aged about 25),—and made a deep impression on all the neighbours. Is this a regular custom of the south of England?
At Kennington, near Oxford, in August, 1901, a boy took me to see a cross cut in the roadside turf, half-way between Kennington and Bagley Wood; here a man had been run over by a timbercart; the boy said that the roadmenders cut the cross afresh every year, and he seemed to regard it as a very impressive memorial. There is a cross cut on the eastern face of Pyrford
