I went on Saturday, the 7th, to Mr. _Laming’s_ house, to request a lock of the hair; but, not meeting with Mr. _Taylor_ at home, went again on Monday, the 9th, when Mr. _Taylor_ gave me part of what hair he had reserved for himself. _Hawkesworth_ having informed me, on the Saturday, that Mr. _Ellis_, the player, had taken some hair, and that he had seen him take a rib-bone, and carry it away in paper under his coat, I went from Mr. _Laming’s_ on Monday to Mr. _Ellis_, who told me that he had paid 6^d. to Elizabeth _Grant_ for seeing the body; and that he had lifted up the head, and taken from the sludge under it a small quantity of hair, with which was a piece of the shroud, and, adhering to the hair, a bit of the skin of the skull, of about the size of a shilling. He then put them all into my hands, with the rib-bone, which appeared to be one of the upper ribs. The piece of the shroud was of coarse linen. The hair which he had taken was short; a small part of it he had washed, and the remainder was in the clotted state in which he had taken it. He told me that he had tried to reach down as low as the hands of the corpse, but had not been able to effect it. The washed hair corresponded exactly with that in my possession, and which I had just received from Mr. _Taylor_. _Ellis_ is a very ingenious worker in hair, and he said that, thinking it would be of great advantage to him to possess a quantity of Milton’s hair, he had returned to the church on Thursday, and had made his endeavours to get access a second time to the body; but had been refused admittance. _Hawkesworth_ took a tooth, and broke a bit off the coffin; of which I was informed by Mr. _Ascough_. I purchased them both of _Hawkesworth_, on Saturday the 7th, for 2^s.; and he told me that, when he took the tooth out, there were but two more remaining; one of which was afterwards taken by another of Mr. _Ascough’s_ men. And _Ellis_ informed me that, at the time when he was there, on Wednesday, the teeth were all gone; but the overseers say they think that all the teeth were not taken out of the coffin, though displaced from the jaws, but that some of them must have fallen among the other bones, as they very readily came out, after the first were drawn. _Haslib_, son of William _Haslib_, of Jewin Street, undertaker, took one of the small bones, which I purchased of him, on Monday, the 9th, for 2^s.