It is the grave of the last known Sin-Eater in England, a practice peculiar to the England/Welsh marches. Richard Munslow appear to have taken on the job after losing 3 of his children in a Whooping Cough outbreak. Sin Eaters were paid a small amount to eat bread and drink ale accross the body of someone who died suddenly, taking on their sins so they arrive before God in a clean and pure state.
This object can be found in Ratlinghope Churchyard, near Church Stretton on the Long Mynd, Shropshire, which is in the Diocese of Hereford.




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There is a record of a Sin Eater at Sharow, near Ripon in the late 19th century. Remembered by the novelist Naomi Jacob in one of her autobiographical books 'Me Again'
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There were Sin-Eaters in Yorkshire
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