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RefNoRBO/14/98
AltRefNoRBO.14.371
LevelItem
Title'An account of the Sceleton [skeleton] of a Man the Bones of which were fill'd with Lead, extracted out of Mr Weaver's ancient funeral Monuments in Britain and the Isles adjacent...'
Date1729
DescriptionFrom chapter entitled 'Of the Cure and Cost anciently used in the preserving whole and entire the Bodies of the Dead' published in London 1631, and from some letters from Edmund Waller, Fellow of St John's College Cambridge to Cromwell Mortimer
Read to the Royal Society on 5 February 1729
LanguageEnglish
Extent6 sides
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordCLP/12ii/47
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8055Mortimer; Cromwell (c 1699 - 1752)c 1699 - 1752
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