Note 5 — Chapter VII · THE DISSENTERS’ BURIAL-GROUNDS.

Although 12,000 Quakers were buried in the Coleman Street ground, including Edward Burrough and others who died as martyrs in Newgate Gaol, George Fox’s grave was the only one marked by a stone,—a small tablet on the wall, with the simple inscription, “G. F.” This attracted visits from country Friends in such numbers that a zealous member of the Society named Robert Howard “pronounced it ‘Nehushtan,’” and caused it to be destroyed.