Touching the place of buriall, I haue spoken before. And although it be not to be misliked, that there should be a common place to bury in yet the places which M. doctor poynteth vs vnto, proue the cleane contrary. For by the story o〈1 line〉〈1 line〉 Abrahams place of buriall, it appeareth that ye manner was that euery one was buried in his owne seuerall grounde, as may appeare also by that, that the Euā∣geliste* 1.1 sai〈1 line〉〈1 line〉h, that there was a fielde bought to bury the straungers in, which had no place of their owne, which was also vsed sometimes in the churches vnder the Gospell, as appeareth by the story of Theodoret, which I haue before recited, and in the latter ende of a funerall oration, whiche Gre∣gorie Naz〈1 line〉〈1 line〉anzene made of the death of his brother Cesarius. And so by this reason M. Doctor would haue euery one buried in his owne possession.
There haue bene placēs alwayes appointed to bury the dead in, dedicated to that vse onely, and therefore there may be so nowe, neither haue you one word in any ap∣proued wryter to the contrary. The conuenience of the place, & the pointing of it out, is in the power of those that haue authoritie, and be gouernours of the cōmon wealth and churche, and with that place that by them is thought moste conuenient we ought to be contented. Neither do I heare any reason to proue that there ought to be any al∣teration of the places already appointed.
Whatsoeuer you haue spoken to the contrary in the other place, I haue there* 1.2 answered.