Willis's Current Notes, No. XV., March 1852 (Illustrated)

Sir,—The late discovery of the remains of a human body in a complete state of preservation, in St. Stephen's Chapel, has induced me to send you a brief notice of several similar occurrences recorded by our early chroniclers and historians. Bede relates that eleven years after the death of St. Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne, the monks took up his body, expecting to see it reduced to ashes, but found, ""all the body whole, as if it had been alive, and the joints pliable more like one asleep ...