Agreed. I just hope they found the will in time. Audrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lyn Nunn" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 10:41 PM Subject: Re: [OEL] Unsolved 1787 Will of John Rothery > Dear Audrey, > > Would it be a fear of being buried alive? Therefore 8 days to make sure I > am > really dead? > > regards > > Lyn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Norman Lee" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 9:19 PM > Subject: Re: [OEL] Unsolved 1787 Will of John Rothery > > >> Dear List >> >> I am interested to see Will's transcription of a problem on the unsolved >> page. I have to confess not to having looked at this but, taking his >> reading >> as correct, the main puzzlement for me is the delay in burying the body. >> I >> understood that the first obligation of the executor(s) was to bury the >> body >> of the deceased after which came payment of debts to the crown and the >> lord >> of the manor followed by other debts of varying categories. Of course, >> this >> doesn't sit very comfortably with the practice of lying in state for some >> important deceased people and maybe this person was one such, whose body >> was >> required by others to lie in state? >> >> Can anyone suggest how this request should be reconciled with burial >> customs? >> >> Audrey >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "William Johnson" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 4:21 PM >> Subject: [OEL] Unsolved 1787 Will of John Rothery >> >> >>> I'm not sure if this has been solved yet, but the unknown words are >>> simply: >>> >>> "that I may be buried on the eighth day after my decease" >>> >>> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/unsolved39.html >>> >>> Will >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >>> -- >>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >>> Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.5/451 - Release Date: >>> 19/09/2006 >>> >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.5/451 - Release Date: 19/09/2006 >