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'An Extract of a Letter from Maurice Johnson junior Esq to William Bogdani Esq, 7th October 1741, concerning an uncommon manner of Interment.' Fols. 132v-133v.

Reference code
SAL/10/09/42
Title
'An Extract of a Letter from Maurice Johnson junior Esq to William Bogdani Esq, 7th October 1741, concerning an uncommon manner of Interment.' Fols. 132v-133v.
Date
7 October 1741
15 October 1741
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Read 15 October 1741: Minute Book IV, fol. 86 (SAL/02/004/073). Also transcribed in ‘Register of Antiquitys’, pp.237-8 (SAL/10/10/039). Partly printed in Archaeologia, 1 (1770), 31.
Refers to a discovery in the north porch of Lincoln Cathedral earlier that year. WIL/04 (formerly SAL MS 786/4) contains a sample of haircloth later found in a coffin at Lincoln, 1842.
Creator
Johnson, Maurice (1688-1755), barrister and antiquary
Bogdani, William (1699-1771), artist and antiquary