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and worthy of burial in the bosom of the new graveyard.

With the minister’s amen, Abel Shones, the officer for poor relief, rose and suggested a deputation to wait upon the vicar seeking permission to inter Twm’s body in the church graveyard. “Very mad is Abel Shones, males bach,” said Old Shemmi. “When Twm’s sins art forgotten, the Church will claim him as her own.” “And possession, dear me, counts for much in the law,” said Sadrach Danyrefail.

Lloyd the Schoolin’ was for compromise. “At the entrance to Capel Sion,” he said, “we will put up an old stone on which is written these words: ‘Tomos Tomos, Tybach, lieth not here. Tomos lieth in the parish church. Why, dear people? Because the graveyard of Capel Sion was so full that there was no room for further burials.’”