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On hearing the bells chime for a funeral, very late at night / W.L.
Date
[1760?]
Ephemera
The effects of love : being a true copy of verses, supposed to be written by Janet Parker, a young woman about 24 years of age, in Sandgate, in Newcastle upon Tyne, who hanged herself on Monday last, the 13th of February, 1792, for the loss of her sweetheart; and this was found wrapped up in a letter near the place where the melancholy affair happened.
Parker, Janet, -1792
Date
[1792?]
Ephemera
M Vous êtes priés d'assister au service du bout-de-l'an de Mr. Pierre Froment, maître en chirurgie, accoucheur, ancien chirurgien du roy en sa marine, & ancien gouverneur & administrateur de la Confrérie du S. Sacrement de Saint Nicolas des Champs, sa paroisse ... : Un De Profundis. De la part de Madame sa veuve, & de Monsieur son fils.
Date
1764
Ephemera
Vous estes priez d'assister au convoy & enterrement de Me. Jean Gelly, docteur en medecine de la Faculté de Paris, décedé en sa maison ruë Sainte Croix de la Bretonnerie : qui se sera cejourd'huy Jeudy sixième septembre 1725 à six heures du soir, en l'Eglise de Saint Merry, sa paroisse, où il sera inhumé : requiescat in pace.
Date
1725
Ephemera
J. T. Wood : manufacturer of embossed, cut-out, and silvered mourning cards, of all sizes : 278 Strand, W.C. / J.T. Wood.
Wood, J. T.
Date
[between 1870 and 1880]
Ephemera
Thomas Roome of Fleetstreet, under-taker of funerals.
Date
[1750?]
Ephemera
On digging a vault lately at Chichester for the lady of Dr. Buckner, three graves were discovered, containing bodies almost consumed : At the feet of one of them were placed two pewter candlesticks, and at the head a hollow pewter dish, evidently intended as a receptacle for the skull ... it appears to be a relick of Romish superstition.
Date
[1789?]
Ephemera
London's dreadful visitation: or, A collection of all the bills of mortality for this present year : beginning the 27th of December 1664, and ending the 19th of December following: as also, the general or whole years bill: according to the report made to the King's most excellent Majesty / by the Company of Parish-Clerks of London. &c.
Date
[between 1700 and 1799?]
Ephemera
Oxford, Jan. 5. : A labourer who fell from St. John's college, died on Tuesday the first instant, tho' all possible care had been taken of him.
Date
[1760?]
Ephemera
John Gibson : upholster, & sworn appraiser : at the Crown & Cushion, in Long-Acre, London : buys & sells all sorts of household goods: cabinets & mohogany work at ye lowest rates : funerals performed.
Gibson, John
Date
[between 1700 and 1760?]
Ephemera

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