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Simon Worth Efq; whofe corps this is, died at 
Madrid, and was fent home in the manner defcribed, 
and fo buried. His wife’s coffin, who was buried in 
the fame vault two years before, and two of his 
children about 1 1 years after (as appears by the re- 
gifter) were quite rotten. The oaken coffin, pitch- 
cloth, and water, feem greatly to have contributed 
to the prefervation of this body. His coffin was found 
very found. I am, Sir, 
Your very affectionate 
May 2t, 1751. 
obliged humble fervant, 
J. Huxham. 
Mr. Tripe to Dr. Huxham. 
S I R, 
iteadoaob.24. A S in a former letter I gave you fome 
TV particulars relating to the external 
parts of the body, and its preferving apparatus, in 
this I lhall give you an account of the internal. But 
before I enter upon this defcription, I muff beg leave 
to obferve to you, that as a great number of people 
reforted to the vault, on the fame of this extraordi- 
nary corps, the anterior parts of the body, from the 
middle of the forehead to the pudehda , except the 
right fide of the thorax , the right hypochondrium , ile y 
and inguen y were foon dripped of the tar-cloth and 
winding-fheet, in order, as the different motives of 
curiofity or fuperftition prevail’d, to be preferved as 
reliques, 
