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2^8. the remains of that Saint are Said
to Smell most Sweetly, que revera omnia
adore redelehanl SiniviffrnO ; and yet this
was above 500 years aSter his e.eceaSe ;
Srom all which one would incline to
believe, that a luxuriancy oSgrass upon
his grave, would better have betoken 'd
the Sanctity of Bishop Fisher than a
want of is. An observation which
l lay the more stress upon, on account
of HollrnsheaeP s testimony concetning
the murder oS Mr Arden of Feversharn.
' This one thing Seerneth very Strange
' anal notable touching Maister Arden,
' that in the place where he was layd
' being dead, all the proportion of his
' body might be Seme two yeares af-
• ter and more, so playne as could be;
' for the graste did not growe where
' his body had touched, but betweene
' his leggs, between hies armes, and a-
< bout the hollowness oShis necke, an.d
< round about his body, and where his
' legges, armes, head, or any part oS
s body, bad touched, no gtaise
' growed at all oS all that time.' There
was no Sanctity in the caSe here, nor
did anv rone ever pretend there was ;
Arden ^ had been baSely murdered, 'ties
true, but he was a man oS a bad character
in Several reSpects, as the Same
historian tells us, anas in particular had
cruelly taken from a poor widow that
very field in which his body was layd.
Mr. Lewis in a note eon this story, which
he has printed in the Appendix to his
history ofFeversham, alter citing the above
passage of Dr. Hall's, thinks it very
probable ' that lhe grass was kept