IN EXHUMATION CASE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6129, 16 March 1898, Page 3

IN EXHUMATION CASE.

PEERAGE POSSIBILITIES. United Presß Association— By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. Booeived March 16, 9.15 a.nu. LONDON, Mabch 15. I An application was made in the j Ecclesiastical Court to his Honor Thomas H. Tristam, Q. 0., Judge of the Bishop of London's Consistory Court, for the exhumation of the bod}' of Thomas Charles Bruce, upholsterer, who died in 1564, and whose remains are supi posed to have been interred in the Highgate Cemetery. It was alleged in support of the application that the ; burial was a sham one, and that the coffin, instead of coutaimug the body I of; Bruce; was filled with . lead. > The widow of the late Walter Bruce, son j of Thomas Charles Bruce, declares that the latter was really tb.6 Marquis of Titchfield, who afterwards became the i liFth Duke of Portland. The Judge granted the necessary facilities for the exhumation of the body. A caveat against the order lor exhumation was entered. . Sydney George Bruce, a grandson of the deceased, resides in j Australia. i [The Portland Dukedom was created in 1716 > the present holder o£ the title being "William John Arthur Charles James Cavendi3h-Beutinck, who wasboru in 1557,' and succeeded to the ducal rights in 1879. The heir ia his son, the Marquis of Titchfield.]