Old times : $b A picture of social life at the end of the eighteenth centuryAshton, John
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Old times : $b A picture of social life at the end of the eighteenth century
Ashton, John
Great Britain -- Social life and customs
"On Monday evening, a set of Resurrectionists, were apprehended
at a house near the Turnpike, Mile end. That morning, a coach was
observed to stop at this house, and an ill looking man came out
of it with a sack; containing as it was supposed, a body, which
he carried into the house, and returned immediately with a large
hamper:--they then drove off to a neighbouring public-house,
when, after a short stay, they took up some others, and were
traced to the Launch, at Deptford. In the meantime, the parish
officers were informed of the circumstance. About six in the
evening, the coach again returned with a similar lading, which
was deposited in the house. Some constables, accompanied by a
number of people, surrounded the house, and forcing an entrance,
they found two men, and a woman, drinking tea on a bench, at one
end of which lay the bodies of two children. They were secured:
and, on entering an adjoining room, the bodies of six adults were
discovered, unmutilated; besides which, the floor was strewed
with limbs, in a state too shocking for public
description."--(_Times, March 20, 1794._)
"A very particular account has been sent to this Paper, of the
late shocking discovery of dead bodies at Mile-End: but we deem
it unfit for publication, as the circumstances are too horrid to
meet the public eye. Every room in the house was a scene of the
most shocking brutality, and it is supposed there were upwards of
100 bodies, some whole, others mangled. The remains found at this
house have since been removed to Bethnal Green church-yard, for a
second interment. We most sincerely hope that his Grace the
Archbishop of Canterbury will move for a bill in Parliament,
making it _death_ to rob a church yard."--(_Times, March 22,
1794._)
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(Adv.) "Robberies in Churchyards and Burial Grounds.
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