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    Willis's Current Notes, No. XV., March 1852
    Willis's Current Notes, No. XV., March 1852
    Willis's Current Notes, No. XV., March 1852
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    Willis's Current Notes, No. XV., March 1852

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      Willis's Current Notes, No. XV., March 1852 - George Willis

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      Title: Willis's Current Notes, No. XV., March 1852

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      Release Date: September 13, 2013 [EBook #43709]

      Language: English

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      WILLIS'S CURRENT NOTES

      FOR THE MONTH.

      No. XV.]               I will make a prief of it in my Note-Book.—Shakspere.               [March, 1852.

      NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS

      To the Price Current of Literature.

      G. Willis gratefully acknowledges the various interesting documents and letters he has received. He is anxious that it should be perfectly understood that he is not the author of any statement, representation, or opinion, that may appear in his Current Notes, which are merely selections from communications made to him in the course of his business, and which appear to him to merit attention. Every statement therefore is open to correction or discussion, and the writers of the several paragraphs should be considered as alone responsible for their assertions. Although many notes have hitherto appeared anonymously, or with initial letters, yet wherever a serious contradiction is involved, G. Willis trusts that his Correspondents will feel the necessity of allowing him to make use of their names when properly required.

      Mediæval Mummies.

      British Museum, Jan. 1852.

      Sir,—The late discovery of the remains of a human body in a complete state of preservation, in St. Stephen's Chapel, has induced me to send you a brief notice of several similar occurrences recorded by our early chroniclers and historians. Bede relates that eleven years after the death of St. Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne, the monks took up his body, expecting to see it reduced to ashes, but found, all the body whole, as if it had been alive, and the joints pliable more like one asleep than a dead person; besides all the vestments the body had on were wonderful for their freshness and glossness. We learn from William of Malmesbury that the body was again found incorrupt 415 years afterwards at Durham, and publicly shewn. Lingard gives an interesting account of the event, taken from a memoir written at the time by an eye-witness, in all probability Simeon, the Durham historian. From this narrative it appears that when the monks removed the masonry of the tomb, "they beheld a large and ponderous chest, which had been entirely covered with leather, and strongly secured with nails and plates of iron. To separate the top from the sides required their utmost exertion, and within it they discovered a second chest, of dimensions

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