A story of clerical intolerance comes from the village of Caverawall, in Staffordshire. A burial board was formed there two or three years ago, to which a sexton was appointed with the approval of the vicar. Subsequently, however, the clergyman quarrelled with the sexton, and appointed another. The man iirsfc selected continued to act, with the approval of the board ; and thus, for some time past, rival sextons have officiated in the burial ground. On Saturday evening, August 8, each had prepared lor a funeral ; but while the curate of the parish read the service over the grave dug by the vicar's sexton, he declined to do so in the other case, quoting the vicar's authority for the course which he pursued. The second body was therefore interred without any ceremony whatever.
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Southland Times, Issue 1056, 13 November 1868, Page 2
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