| Description | Letters probably relate to the situation described in a letter in PFA/8/182. While the rector sets out the legal responsibility for the burial of babies, Lord Penrhyn argues that men of the church have a moral responsibility to ensure that babies being buried truly were still born. States concern that the current situation "…..is a practice which affords neat facility for the concealment of culpable neglect and ill treatment of those children, and even of child - murder and I should think that the moral influence of the clergyman even if he has no legal authority - might be beneficially exercised in furthering a stop to such a practice." |