"Ninety years ago," says : this ' "Church Family Newsaper," "a boy;.! at 'Westminster School, which adjoin a, the Abbey, burrowed through the sandstone foundation, of one of the walls. j Inside the cavity he felt a skeleton, from which he succeeded in removing what turned out to he a human, jaw-; bone. He took it home to his father,' who formed the opinion ,that his son, had raided the tomb of Richard 11. -The: bone remained in the family, labelled! 'Jawbone of Richard ll* until late inj King Edward's reign, when the'then, owner sent it to the King with an ex-; planatory letter. After many fomali-j ties, Richard's tomb was opened, and,] sure enough, the jawbone was found to; be missing. It "' as replaced, and _a; parchment manuscript recordmg tie cirw. cumstances vr«is deposited in til© tomb*
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2939, 27 November 1916, Page 5
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136Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2939, 27 November 1916, Page 5
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