 In 1840 it was alleged to a House of Lords select committee that the remains of "ten or twelve thousand" bodies had been concealed in a vault beneath Enon Chapel.It was said that the chapel's Reverend Howse had offered burials for a low fee of 15 shillings, and that to do this he placed the bodies into a pit under the chapel, possibly using a large amount of quicklime to accelerate their decomposition.One witness attested to "at least twenty interments a week", and others believed that the vault housed an open sewer carrying the bodies to the Thames.