M&D - Tyburn Tree 'resurrections'

[Michael Baum]

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:24:31 -0700, Doug Millison wrote:

>'resurrections' " There is, for example, the case of William Duell in 1740,
>who hung at Tyburn for half an hour and revived as the surgeons were about
>to dissect him."
...
>Something like this might be what TRP's getting at (it's conceivable that
>the 1975 article might even have served as one of his M&D sources) when he
>writes:
>"Mason has been shov'd about and borne along in riots of sailors attempting
>to wrest from bands of Medical Students the bodies of Shipmates come to
>grief ashore, too far from the safety of the Sea" (MD 15.11)

My copy isn't to hand, but doesn't the Rev. Cherrycoke start off his narration with a metaphor -- or perhaps not, could never figure out if it was supposed to be his real history -- about being hung and revived?

maab