Note 115 — THE GRAND SOLEMNITY OF THE TAYLOR’S FUNERAL.

A reference to a similar event is made in R. Braithwaite’s Penitent Pilgrim, 1641, reprinted by Pickering, of London, in 1853. At p. 109 of the reprint the following passage will be found:—‘Nay, hast thou not seen the very corpse of thy departed brother arrested, and uncharitably stayed; who, though he had paid his debt to nature, yet must receive no burial till his corpse has discharged his debt to his creditor? and hast thou sought to satisfy his hard-hearted creditor that those due funeral rites might be performed to thy brother?’