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July 2015

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  10. Dear David and Frank,

    I’d be grateful if you could let me know, it there is a simple way for me to check all of my submissions to your website. Because of computer breakdowns, I am having to plug gaps in my records.

    I have found this:-
    Frank Cranmer on 28 February 2013 at 10:38 am said:
    We have received the following comment from John Bradfield:
    https://lawandreligionuk.com/2013/02/16/rudewicz-and-richard-iiis-exhumation/

    I’m reasonably sure that I may have submitted other comments.

    For interest, if provided with an email address, I could send a copy of a recent email which I sent to the Ecclesiastical Law society, asking if it has ever published an article, on the legal right of Christians to have Christian funerals.

    Take care,

    John

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