23.--Two leaden cases were dug up from a piece of ground at the east end
of Wymondham church. One measured 6 ft 2 in. in length, and contained
the mummified remains of an adult female; the other, 16.25 inches in
length, a foetus of about the fourth month. The examination of the
remains was conducted in the church on December 27th, by Mr. John
Dalrymple, of Norwich, in the presence of sixty scientific and medical
men. "As the mummies were taken from the site of the original choir, the
female was most probably nearly allied to the founder of the abbey,
William De Abbay or Daubeny, who died in the year 1156."
24.--An altar piece, copied from Rubens' "Descent from the Cross," and
about one-fourth the size of the original picture, presented to St
Peter's church, Yarmouth, by Col. Mason, was on this day placed in
position under the personal superintendence of the donor.
1834.