150 Years Ago: from the Essex Chronicle of 1778: … … A morning paper says it is a fact that the Earl of Chatham’s body was privately interred the 4th day after his departure, at Pynsent, and that all the funeral pomp with which the public have been amused was merely a coffin inscribed by his name …
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