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JOHN AUBREY: Brief Lives
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c 1680- 97.
[Life of] John Colet
John Colet, D.D., Deane of St Paule's, London. After the conflagration (his monument being broken) somebody made a little hole towards the upper edge of his Coffin, which was closed like the coffin of a pye and was full of a liquor which conserved the body. Mr Wyld and Ralph Greatorex tasted it and 'twas of a kind of insipid tast, something of an Ironish tast. The coffin was of lead, and layd in the wall about 2 foot 1/2 above the surface of the floore.
This was a strange rare way of conserving a corps: perhaps it was a pickle, as for beefe, whose saltness in so many years the lead might sweeten and render insipid. The body felt, to the probe of a stick which they thrust into a chinke, like boyld brawne. [Transcription by John F. Tinkler.]
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