Note 782 — Chapter VII · SURVIVALS IN BURIAL CUSTOMS
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M. D. Conway, Autobiography and Experiences, 1904, II. p. 77. The incident is not mentioned in Evelyn Ashley’s Life of Lord Palmerston, 1879, nor in the Marquis of Lorne’s Viscount Palmerston, 1892. Cf. Cornish Customs, as described in Vict. Hist. of Cornwall, 1906, I. p. 367.