Burying in Woollen Act 1678

VII. What First Account given by Overseers is to contain.

What future Accounts are to contain; No Accounts allowed without containing Account of Burials.

And it is hereby further enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That [X1 in the [X2 firt] Account to be given in by any Overseers of the Poore after the First day of August One thousand six hundred seaventy eight they doe and shall give an Account as by this Act is hereafter directed of all Buryalls within their [X3 Parish] from the said First day of August One thousand six hundred seaventy eight to the time of the giveing in the said Account and that for the future] when and as often as the Overseers of the Poore doe give up their Accounts to the Justices of the Peace at the Quarter Sessions or Petty Sessions or any two Justices of the Peace in their Monethly Meetings that they doe and shall give an Account of the Name and Quality of every person interred within their Parish from the time of their former Account and of such Certificates as came to their hands from the Parson or Minister of the said Parish that the persons therein mentioned were interred contrary to the directions and true intent of this Act and of their levying the Penalty on the Offenders according to this Act and alsoe a true Account of the disposall of the same under the Penalty of Five pounds to be levyed by Distresse and Sale of the Goods of such Churchwardens [X4 and] Overseers by Warrant from the said Justices of the Peace or any two of them [X1 And that noe Account of any Overseers of the Poore shall be allowed after the first day of August One thousand six hundred seaventy eight untill they shall therein account for the Burialls within the respective Parishes as is before directed]

Editorial Information

X1 annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule.

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: first O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X3 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Parishes O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X4 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: or O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]