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A New and General Biographical Dictionary Volume 4 (Dac - Eut); Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, Particularly the British and Irish, from the Earliest Accounts of T

A New and General Biographical Dictionary Volume 4 (Dac - Eut); Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, Particularly the British and Irish, from the Earliest Accounts of T


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1761 Excerpt: ...pretending to have gained her consent, ordered the body to be carried to mr. Russel's, an undertaker in Cheapside, and to be left there till surther orders. In the mean time, the abbey was lighted up, the ground opened, the choir attending, and the bishop waiting some hours to no purpose for the corpse. The next day, mr. Charles Dryden waited upon lord Hallifax and the bishop, and endeavoured to excuse his mother, by relating the truth; but they would not hear of any excuse. Three days after, the undertaker, receiving no orders, waited on lord Jefferies, who turned it off in a jest, pretending, that those who paid any regard to a drunken frolic, deserved no better; that he remembered nothing at all of the matter; and that they might do what they pleased with the corpse. Upon this the undertaker waited on the lady Elizabeth, who desired a day to consider what must be done. Mr. Charles Dryden immediately wrote to lord Jefferies, who returned for answer, that he knew nothing of the matter, and would be troubled no more about it. Mr. Dryden applied again to lord Hallifax and the bishop of-Rochester, who absolutely resused to do any thing in the affair. In this distress, dr. Garth sent for the corpse to the college of physicians, and proposed a suneral by subscription; which succeeding, about three weeks after mr. Dryden's decease, dr. Garth pronounced a Latin oration over his body, which was conveyed from the college, attended by a numerous train of coaches, to Westminster-abbey. After the suneral, mr. Charles Dryden sent lord Jefferies a challenge, which was not accepted; and, mr. Dryden publickly declaring he would watch every opportunity to fight him, his lordship thought sit to leave the town upon it, and mr. Dryden never could meet him after. As to mr. Dry...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781232093688
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 188
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1232093688
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 345 gr


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