Cheshire Burial text and meaning

[Neil_A]

Hello

Looking at the burial records of a church in Cheshire in the 1700s the burials list three names. The name of the deceased, I presume the vicar who conducted the service, and a third name. What does the text say and does anyone know its importance in the record?

Looking at other burials the vicar name appears (as you would expect) on all the burials. The 'third' name is different, sometimes with the same name as the deceased sometimes not. The 'third' person can also be both a man and a woman (so guessing not the person who buried the body!).

Any help or guidance would be much appreciated.
Example text attached.

Many thanks
Neil

[Bookbox]

Ann Small swore an affidavit that the body was buried in woollen.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burying_in_Woollen_Acts

[arthurk]

The Bolton-upon-Dearne (WRY) registers include many entries referring to this, and in nearly all cases the person swearing the affidavit is female - see transcript at https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/BoltonUponDearne/BoltonBurials1674-1699

My impression is that some of the older women of the parish used to lay out the bodies of the deceased and prepared them for burial, so were very much involved in the occasion. At least some of the ones in Bolton were from fairly well-to-do families, and it may be that they saw this as a kind of act of charity; they might even have provided the woollen shrouds out of their own pockets, to give the poorer families a more dignified send-off and prevent them being recorded for all time as poor.