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WR.733.022
2 Jul 1733:21 (92)
They write from Bagborough in Somersetshire, that on Tuesday
last week was buried from that place at Lydiard St.
Laurence, Mrs. Jane Keene, a maiden gentlewoman, aged 92 :
She order'd by Will four men (each near forty) who had never
kiss'd a woman) for her bearers; three violins and other
instruments of musick, were to play all the way before her
to the parish church where she was buried, which was at
least a mile and half; she gave large directions for
victuals and drink; and no one was to wear mourning, or shew
the least concern; her corpse was attended by at least four
thousand people, who seem'd punctually to observe the latter
part of her will; and the bells of both parishes rang all
the day; She once design'd six virgins should dance round
her grave.
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