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A Publisher and His Friends

CHAPTER XV
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CUNNINGHAM.
No communication having been received by the Rector, he placed the application from Lord Byron before the churchwardens.
_Rev.J.W.Cunningham to John Murray_.
"The churchwardens have been urged to issue their prohibition by several leading and influential persons, laymen, in the parish.

You are aware that as to _ex-parishioners_ the consent of the churchwardens is no less necessary than my own; and that therefore the enclosed prohibition is decisive as to the putting up of the monument.

You will oblige me by making known to Lord Byron the precise circumstances of the case.
I am, your obedient Servant, J.W.

CUNNINGHAM.
The prohibition was as follows: HARROW, _September_ 17, 1822.
Honored Sir, I object on behalf of the parish to admit the tablet of Lord Byron's child into the church.
JAMES WINKLEY, _Churchwarden_.
The remains of Allegra, after long delay, were at length buried in the church, just under the present door mat, over which the congregation enter the church; but no memorial tablet or other record of her appears on the walls of Harrow Church..


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