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WR.732.015
30 Oct 1732:11,12 (59)
London, Aug. 8. On Friday last, a foreign gentleman, who
took lodgings at the German Coffee House in S. James's
Street, died suddenly, being in good health and dinner. The
master of the coffee house was in a concern how to bury him,
he being a stranger, and was about applying to the parish;
but telling a gentleman the case, who was drinking the night
before with the deceased, the gentleman told the landlord,
he heard the deceased say that whenever he died, there was
something in a spinnet that he used to play on, that would
bury him, upon which they took it to pieces, and found
therein about 100 guineas, which afforded him a handsome
burial.
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