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tho’ intirely found, when the vault was firfl open'd, 
the body is order’d by Mr. Worth, of Worth near 
Tiverton, whofe anceftor he is, to be fpeedily re- 
moved to another, and then nailed up. I am 
Yours, <&c. 
Nicholas Tripe. 
Dr. Huxham to Dr. Stack. 
Dear Sir, 
Read Oftob. 24. T AM very ferry I could not myfelf at- 
175 x tenc i t i ie difledtion, which I had de- 
figned, but was hinder’d. Mr. Tripe however told 
me, he found the heart and lungs as found, as 
if the perfon had not been dead above four days, but 
much more flat and comprefled than ufual ; the 
joints very flexible and fupple ; the knees in particu- 
lar, the patella , tendons, ligaments, and the whole 
articulation being as fmooth, undtuous, and flexible, 
as in a body newly dead. He alfo gave me a piece 
of the pitch-cloth, which inveloped the whole body 
wrapp’d up within in the linen fheet, as mention’d 
in the letter I formerly fent you, of which you took 
a copy, and to which I refer you. 
I have inclofed a piece of the pitch, or tar, refln, 
and turpentine, with which the outer involucrum 
was befmeared. I take it to be pitch or tar, and 
turpentine ; as it readily diflolves in fp, vim , and 
fmells like it when melted. 
Simon 
