TO KEEP PIGS OUT OF A CHURCHYARD
There is in Chiswick Church an interesting tablet, bearing the date 1623, and recording the fact that the Earl of Bedford built the wall of the churchyard facing the Mall, to prevent pigs running about the churchyard. The inscription is as follows: —“This wall was made at ye Charges of ye Right Honorable and trulie pious Lord Francis Russel, Earle of Bedford, out of true zeal and care for ye keeping of this churchyard and ye wardrobe of God’s Saints, whose bodies lay therein buryed, from violating by swine and other prophanation. So witnesseth William Walker. V. a.d. 1623.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 8 October 1936, Page 2
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106TO KEEP PIGS OUT OF A CHURCHYARD Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 8 October 1936, Page 2
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