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XXXIII. Some Account of a Body lately 



found in uncommon Prefervation> under 

 the Ruins of the Abbey^ at St. Edmund's- 

 Bury, Suffolk; with fome Refle&ions upon 

 the Subjetl : By Charles Collignon, M. D. 

 F. R. S. and Profejfor of Anatomy at 

 Cambridge, 



Read Juwe 4$, IjTjSJ the month of February laft, fome 

 JL workmen, digging among the ruins 

 of the above abbey, discovered a leaden coffin, fup- 

 pofed, from fome circumtlances, to contain the re- 

 mains of Thomas Beaufort, Dake of Exeter, uncle 

 to king Henry the Fifth. As it certainly was buried 

 before the diiTolution of the abbey, it muft have been 

 there between two and three hundred years. It was 

 found near the wall, on the left-hand fide of the 

 choir of the chapel of the bleifed Virgin ; not in- 

 clofed in a vault, but covered over with the common 

 earth. Upon examining the appearance of the body, 

 the following eircumftances were remarkable, as com- 

 municated to me, by an ingenious furgeon, on the 

 fpot, Mr. Thomas Cullum. 



" The body was inclofed in a leaden coffin, fur- 

 rounding it very clofe, fo that you might eailly diftin- 



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