As this narrative is not long, I propose to give it in its entirety, because to condense it would be to spoil it, and, by giving it _in extenso_, the reader will be better able to judge whether it was really Milton’s body which was exhumed. A NARRATIVE, &c. Having read in the _Public Advertiser_, on Saturday, the 7th of August, 1790, that _Milton’s_ coffin had been dug up in the parish church of St. Giles, Cripplegate, and was there to be seen, I went immediately to the church, and found the latter part of the information to be untrue; but, from conversations on that day, on Monday, the 9th, and on Tuesday, the 10th of August, with Mr. Thomas _Strong_, Solicitor and F.A.S., Red Cross Street, _Vestry-Clerk_; Mr. John _Cole_, Barbican, Silversmith, _Churchwarden_; Mr. John _Laming_, Barbican, _Pawnbroker_; and Mr. _Fountain_, Beech Lane, Publican, _Overseers_; Mr. _Taylor_, of Stanton, Derbyshire, _Surgeon_; a friend of Mr. _Laming_, and a visitor in his house; Mr. William _Ascough_, Coffin-maker, Fore Street, _Parish Clerk_; Benjamin _Holmes_ and Thomas _Hawkesworth_, journeymen to Mr. Ascough; Mrs. _Hoppey_, Fore Street, _Sexton_; Mr. _Ellis_, No. 9, Lamb’s Chapel, comedian of the Royalty-theatre; and John _Poole_ (son of Rowland Poole), Watch-spring maker, Jacob’s Passage, Barbican, the following facts are established: It being in the contemplation of some persons to bestow a considerable sum of money in erecting a monument, in the parish church of _St. Giles_, Cripplegate, to the memory of _Milton_, and the particular spot of his interment in that church having for many years past been ascertained only by tradition, several of the principal parishioners have, at their meetings, frequently expressed a wish that his coffin should be dug for, that incontestable evidence of its exact situation might be established, before the said monument should be erected. The entry, among the burials, in the register-book, 12th of November, 1674, is ‘_John Milton_, Gentleman, consumption, _chancell_.’ The church of St. Giles, Cripplegate, was built in 1030, was burnt down (except the steeple) and rebuilt in 1545; was repaired in 1682; and again in 1710. In the repair of 1782, an alteration took place in the disposition of the inside of the church; the pulpit was removed from the second pillar, against which it stood, north of the chancel, to the south side of the present chancel, which was then formed, and pews were built over the old chancel. The tradition has always been that _Milton_ was buried in the chancel, under the clerk’s desk; but the circumstance of the alteration in the church, not having, of late years, been attended to, the clerk, sexton, and other officers of the parish have misguided inquirers, by showing the spot under the clerk’s desk, in the present chancel, as the place of _Milton’s_ interment. I have twice, at different periods, been shown that spot as the place where _Milton_ lay. Even Mr. _Baskerville_, who died a few years