Memento Mori

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Specification of Henry Revell Spicer : cases for preserving human remains.

Human remains and mass violence : methodological approaches / Jean-Marc Dreyfus & Élisbeth Anstett.

Von Leichen, Scharlatanen und Studenten ... / Volker Klimpel.

To the Churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of ... in the county aforesaid : Whereas, sworn evidence has been given before me this day of the finding of the body of ... in the ... by ... I hereby certify that he is entitled to the sum of five shillings for the finding of such body ... Coroner for.

Drowned human bodies : received of the Churchwardens and overseers of the parish of Greenwich the sum of five shillings, for finding the body of ... floating in (on the foreshore of) the River Thames, within this parish : dated this ... day of  ... 189.

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Cadaver

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Human remains and mass violence : methodological approaches / Jean-Marc Dreyfus & Élisbeth Anstett.

Von Leichen, Scharlatanen und Studenten ... / Volker Klimpel.

Memento Mori

Drowned human bodies : received of the Churchwardens and overseers of the parish of Greenwich the sum of five shillings, for finding the body of ... floating in (on the foreshore of) the River Thames, within this parish : dated this ... day of ... 189.

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Human remains and mass violence : methodological approaches / Jean-Marc Dreyfus & Élisbeth Anstett.

Von Leichen, Scharlatanen und Studenten ... / Volker Klimpel.

Memento Mori

Drowned human bodies : received of the Churchwardens and overseers of the parish of Greenwich the sum of five shillings, for finding the body of ... floating in (on the foreshore of) the River Thames, within this parish : dated this ... day of ... 189.

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