Shakespeares Bones the Proposal to Disinter Them Considered in Relation to Th
Shakespeares Bones the Proposal to Disinter Them Considered in Relation to Th
Ingleby Clement Mansfield
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On the destruction of the burial-place of the Old Meeting House, in Old Meeting Street, Birmingham, in March, 1882, the coffin of the poet was found in the earth, and on opening it, the face was almost as fresh, and quite as perfect, as on the day of the old man's interment seventy-four years before : and as to his bones ? Does Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps believe that in a period but little more than double that of the poet Freeth's unmolested repose, namely 180 years, all Shakespeare's Bones would... have been turned to dust, and become indistinguishable from the mould in which the coffin lay ? To ask this question is to answer it. A more * Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare. 3rd edition, 18S3, p. 223. Shakespeare's Bones. 33 credulous man, than I know Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps to be, would hesitate to give an affirmative answer. Depend upon it, Shakespeare's skull is in his grave, unchanged ; or it has been abstracted. There may well have been a mistake as to the exact locality of the grave : for we do not know that the new gravestone was laid down exactly over the place of the one that was removed ; and the skull may be found in a grave hard-by.
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