THE RIGHTS OF NONCONFORMISTS.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] • get my Spectator late, and perhaps some other corre- spondent has already pointed out that Dr. Morgan Gibbon's grievance as to the rights of others than clergymen of the
Church of England to bury in consecrated ground was removed forty-three years ago by the Burial Laws Amendment Act, 1880 (43 and 44 Vict., c. 41).
I quote from Chancellor P. V. Smith's Legal Position of the Clergy (edition 1905), pp. 126, 127 :— " On receiving forty-eight hours' previous notice in writing to that effect from a relative, friend, or legal representative of a deceased person entitled to burial in a churchyard or burial ground. the incumbent of the parish or chaplain of the ground must permit the interment of the deceased without the performance of the rites of the Church of England, and either without any service at all or with some other Christian and orderly religious service conducted-by a person or persons not in holy orders of the Church of England."
AU Saints Rectory, The Walks, Huntingdon.
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