HENRY GOUGH.

Emberton, Bucks.

_Burial in an erect Position_ (Vol. viii., pp. 59. 233.).--So Ben Jonson

was buried at Westminster, probably on account of the large fee demanded

for a full-sized grave. It was long supposed by many that the story was

invented to account for the smallness of the gravestone; but the grave

being opened a few years ago, the dramatist's remains were discovered in

the attitude indicated by tradition.

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