A Corpse Not Buried For Nineteen Years

Source	http://ersby.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-corpse-not-buried-for-nineteen-years.html
Author	Ersby
Published	2018-07-16, 04:00 AM
Summary	On this day two hundred and fifty years ago (16 July 1768), a woman was finally laid to rest in London after an apparently very literal interpretation of the terms of a will meant that she remained unburied for almost two decades. According to the Gentleman's Magazine and the Annual Register for 1768, a close relative of the woman passed away and left a clause in his will that she should receive an annual sum of £25 "as long as she is on the Earth." According to the website Measuring Worth, the
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