My apologies for any cross postings. Patick Boylan recently replied to to a LIST request about MONEY. He gave the address of the BANK OF ENGLAND MUSEUM which is well worth an online visit. They have a number of quirky stories including the one below ____________________________________________________________________ ***A mailing from Dr Drum*** DR DRUM'S NOT-FOR-PROFIT BOOKSHOP The Globe's largest Museum & Not-For-Profit Bookshop http://members.tripod.com/~DrDrum_2/Bookshop.html Hundreds of titles on line _____________________________________________________________________ THE BANK GIANT When excavations were carried out in connection with the rebuilding of the Bank during the interwar years a lead coffin, measuring 7 feet 6 inches, was discovered below the old Garden Court which had once been the churchyard of St Christopher-le-Stocks. It was found on 2 August 1933 at a depth of 8½ft at the extreme eastern end of the old Garden Court. It bore a metal plate inscribed:- "Mr William Danl. Jenkins. Died 24 March 1798, Aged 31". William Daniel Jenkins was a former clerk who had been 6ft 7inches in height. When he died, "of a decline", after 9 years in the Bank, his friends, fearing that the corpse would be stolen by body snatchers (upwards of 200 guineas had already been offered for it by "some surgeons"), asked permission from the Directors to bury it in the Garden Court. Jenkins himself was said to have been "considerably disturbed in his mind before his death, from the apprehension that his body would be taken up after burial for the use of the Surgeons". The request was granted and Jenkins was buried "very early" one morning before business commenced. An Act of 18 July 1923 provided that any human remains removed from the site of the former churchyard of St Christopher's should be re-interred at Nunhead Cemetery or any other consecrated burial ground. Accordingly the coffin was removed to Nunhead (near Peckham) where it was placed in the catacomb, having been found too large for the vaults.