aufzuraumen

Updated: May 21, 2025

On such occasions when the Landschaftscollegium gave the order 'aufzuraumen, it was the usage to dig a hole in a corner of the churchyard then to bring up en masse the contents of the Kassengewolbe coffins, whether entire or in fragments, bones, skulls, and tattered graveclothes and finally to shovel the whole heap into the aforesaid pit.

C. M. (Clement Mansfield) Ingleby - Shakespeare's Bones