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Show Strange Company of the Dead. In tho near future the almoners of Christ's hospital, London, will carry Into effect their Intention to remove tho human remains that are Interred within the precincts of that ancient institution. A strange crowd four queens, lords and ladles, knights and monks, and many persons of high and low degree rest there, where once the Gray Friars placed their dead and many old Blues sleep beneath the cloisters, having been buried there, so was the custom, by torchlight Also there He the body of Isabella of France, the wife of Edward II, with her murdered husband's heart upon her breast Her ghost was always said to haunt the cloisters. So also do two rapacious favorites of Richard II and Damo Alice Hungerford, who brutally' murdered her spouse ln the year 1523. |