The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-06-14

cue, N the Cell at Iindholr,, near Hatfield. They
wcr, believed be thoie of William If Iindho!n. a
hermit, VINO had long made this cave his hA5ta-
ton
T. In February 1874, part of Wooburn- abbey be-
my pulled down, large portion Of corpIe appeared
even with the hch on, and which bore cutting with
knife though is certain this had lain above two
hundred years, and how much longer doubtful for
,h's abbey was founded in Il4J, and d:nc,ved in
1855 or 9.
What would have been faij, what believed, If
this rad been an accident to TIE bones in Gueiton?
Further, my Lord it is not yet out of living me-
mory, that az little ditance from marlborough in
held, part OF the manor of the worthy and patriot
aronet, who Toes that borough the honour to repre-
lent " III Parliament, Were found, in digging for gra-
vel not one human fkeleton only, BIZ; FIVE fix, de-
poi'ted hide BY Gde with each an urn placed at his
heao As Your Lor6ihp knows ufua. in ancea, in
terments.
About the fame time, and in another field, almoa
cloe to this borough, was dcovered alfo in fearch-
ing !or gravel another human Releton; but the pie
~ OF the fame worthy gentleman ordered both the
pits to be filled up again. commercially unwilling to
diaurb the dead
Is the invention of thefe bones forgotten, then. or
hun!triouiy concealed, that the dncovc. OF thofe in
fneeion may appear the more fngular md ex.raord-
nary Whereas, in facs, there is nothing extraord
nary MT Aimoif every place conceals luch remains
IN heids, III hills, IN highway fies, i'll commons lie
frequent and unfuip-aed homes And our preient
aotments Tor reG for the departed are but OF fome
centuries.
Another particular feems not to claim little Of
your Lordhips notice, ard that of the gentlemen of
the jury; which is thai perhaps no example occurs of
more than one Reeton being found in one cell; and
IN the cell in queition, was fouad but one agreeable
IN .is' TO the peculiarly of every other known cell in
Britain. Not the invention of one Gele,on, them but
oil two would have appeared fufpicious and uncom-
mon.
But then, my Lord, to ATTEMPT to identify theft.
when even to identify living ome,ines has PROV
go 10 dficut, as N the cafe of Perkin Warbeck and
Lambert Symnel at home, and of Don Sebalian 4
broad will be booked upon perhaps an attempt to
determine what is Understandable And hope too
It VIII not pats unconiidered here where Gentlemen
believe with caution, think with reafon, and decide
with humanity, what nterc the endcavour to do this
Is calculated TO erve'n agning proper perfonal,y to
thsie pohes, whole particular appropriation can only
appear to eternal Omnifcience
fermit me, my Lord, alto very humbly to re-
monrate that, as human bones appear to have been
the neParabls adjunGs of every cell, even any per-
Ions naming fuch place at random as containing
then in this cafe, hews him rather unfortunate than
conicous proficient and that thefe attendants on eve
ry hermitage only accidentally concurred with ,b;
a caiual coincidence Of words anil
things.
But feems another keeton has been difcoyer-
ed by fome labourer, which was full as confidently =
verred to be Clark's as this My Lord mutt fone of
the hvIng,h 1t promotes fome intereit be made an
ierable Tor all the bones that earth has concealed &
ehanee expofed And might not place where bones
.ay be mentioned by Perion by chance, as well as
mnal accidentally to name WI, = bore. lie than a..
eidentally to find where they lie
Here too IS human lfull produced, which is
fractured; but was this the caufe or was the CON-
iequerce OF DEATH was it owing to violence or was
it the effect of natural decay If was violence was
that violence before or after death , My Lord, in
May l732, the remains OF William Lord Archbifhop
oil inns province were taken up, by permihon, in this
cathedral, and the bones of the fsnli were found
ken; yet certainly he died by no violence offered
TO him alive, tina; could location that fracture there
Let 1t be cCnildered, my Lord, that, upon the
difloluton of religious houfes and the commence
ment OF the Reformation the ravaees of tho(e times
both affected the living and the dead. In fearch af
ter imaginary creatures, collins were broken nm
graves and vaults dug OPEN monuments ranfacked &
ihrines demoliihed your Iordfps knows that theie
violations proceeded 70 far, to location Paramen
tary authority TO refrain them; and il did about
the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth in
treat your Lordfhp fuer not the vioIences, the de-
Predations, and the niquties of thoe times TO be i'm
puted to this.
Moreover, what gentleman here is ignorant that
Nhni Sahie WHICH,, though
-un, was comfortable both for It's Nrength and
carlton. All know it was vigoroully beiieged bv
he arms of the Parliament at which iiege, in faes.
Conflicts flights purfus, many fell in all the place,
-ound it and where they fell were buried for eve
" place is burial earth in war and many, oueaion
eis of thee ref yet unknown, whole bones fu,urity
hall difcover.
hope, with all imaginable fubmIion, that wbo. |
las been iaid will not be thought impairment to this
Indictment and that will be far from the vv,fdom
he learning, and the integrity of this place, to i'm
'u;e to the living what zeal in its fury NAV have done
what nature may have taken off, & piety inferred
'r what war alone may have deftroyed, alone depot
d.
AS to the circumstances that have been raked to.
yether have nothing to obferve, but that all cir
umttances whadoever are preearious and have been
ut too frequently found lamentably fallible even
he ilrongef have failed. They may rife to the ut |
non degree of probability yet are they bur probab
ity ifill. Why need name to your Iordihip the |
wo Harrifon5 recorded in DIR. Howell who both inf |
cred upon circnmhaDces becaufe Of the fudden d;ap
'earance of their lodger who was in credit, had con-
raeted debts, borrowed money, and went off unfeen.
md returned again great many years after their exc
luton Why name the intricate affair of Jacques du
Moulin, under King Charles II, related by Gentle
nan who was Council for the Crown And why .be !
unhappy Coleman, no fufered innocent, tho CON-
'iaed upon poftive evidence and whole children pe
hed for want, becaufe the world unchari,ablv be- |
ieved the father guilty! Why mention the perjury
Smith al, oil