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07/26/07

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Taste Test?

John Colet January 1467 – September 10, 1519

St Paul's Cathedral was devastated after the great fire of 1666. The coffins that had been interred there had to be inspected, including that of the great 16th century humanist scholar John Colet.

John Aubrey is quoted below in regards to what they found:

"After the conflagration, his monument being broken, his coffin, which was lead, was full of liquor which conserved the body. Mr. Wyld and Mr. Greatorex tasted it, and 'twas of a kind of insipid taste, something of an ironish taste. The body felt, to the probe of a stick which they thrust into a chinke, like brawne."

What more can I add, but ... ew!

Source: Let Them Eat Cake, By Geoffrey Regan

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