Burial year inferred by the following and may be incorrect:
"In digging the foundations of the new buildings at Christ Church, on the spot where formerly stood Canterbury College, a skeleton was found, about three feet under the surface, supposed to have lain there upwards of 500 years, as some silver pence of King Edward the First were found close to the thigh bone; no coffin or any other vestige appeared, by which it might be conjectured who was buried there. Something like half-boots were round the bottom of the leg-bones, from which, and other circumstances, it is imagined the corpse was interred in his clothes. These remains were carefully collected, put into a shell, and deposited in the College Chapel." (Reading Mercury, 14 Apr 1783, p3)
"In digging the foundations of the new buildings at Christ Church, on the spot where formerly stood Canterbury College, a skeleton was found, about three feet under the surface, supposed to have lain there upwards of 500 years, as some silver pence of King Edward the First were found close to the thigh bone; no coffin or any other vestige appeared, by which it might be conjectured who was buried there. Something like half-boots were round the bottom of the leg-bones, from which, and other circumstances, it is imagined the corpse was interred in his clothes. These remains were carefully collected, put into a shell, and deposited in the College Chapel." (Reading Mercury, 14 Apr 1783, p3)
Burial year inferred by the following and may be incorrect:
"In digging the foundations of the new buildings at Christ Church, on the spot where formerly stood Canterbury College, a skeleton was found, about three feet under the surface, supposed to have lain there upwards of 500 years, as some silver pence of King Edward the First were found close to the thigh bone; no coffin or any other vestige appeared, by which it might be conjectured who was buried there. Something like half-boots were round the bottom of the leg-bones, from which, and other circumstances, it is imagined the corpse was interred in his clothes. These remains were carefully collected, put into a shell, and deposited in the College Chapel." (Reading Mercury, 14 Apr 1783, p3)
"In digging the foundations of the new buildings at Christ Church, on the spot where formerly stood Canterbury College, a skeleton was found, about three feet under the surface, supposed to have lain there upwards of 500 years, as some silver pence of King Edward the First were found close to the thigh bone; no coffin or any other vestige appeared, by which it might be conjectured who was buried there. Something like half-boots were round the bottom of the leg-bones, from which, and other circumstances, it is imagined the corpse was interred in his clothes. These remains were carefully collected, put into a shell, and deposited in the College Chapel." (Reading Mercury, 14 Apr 1783, p3)
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