Use of Coffins

How long has it been the custom to inter the dead in coffins? "In a table of Dutyes" dated 11th Dec. 1664, and preserved at Shoreditch Church, it is mentioned:— "For a buryall in the New Church Yard without a coffin, 00 00 08. "For a buryall in ye Old Church Yard without a coffin seauen pence 00 00 07. "For the grave marking and attendance of ye Vicar and Clarke on ye enterment of a corps uncoffined the churchwardens to pay the ordinary duteys (and no more) of this table."