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XXXIII. Some Account of a Body lately 
found in uncommon Prefetrvation y under 
the Ruins of the Abbey , at St. Edmund’s- 
Bury, Suffolk ; with fome RefleSlions upon 
the SubjeSl : By Charles Collignon, M. D . 
F. R. S. and Profejfor of Anatomy at 
Cambridge. 
Read June 25, ITN the month of February laft, fortie 
I workmen, digging among the ruins 
of the above abbey, difcovered a leaden coffin* fup- 
pofed, from fome circumftances, to contain the re- 
mains of Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, uncle 
to king Henry the Fifth. As it certainly was buried 
before the diftolution 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 bleffed Virgin ; not in- 
clofed in a vault, but covered over with the common 
earth. Upon examining the appearance of the body, 
the following circumftances 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 eafily diftin- 
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