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We hear that the remains of the late Earl Ferrers are to be carried into Leicestershire, and interred with his ancestors.
The corpse of the late Earl Ferrers was exposed to publick view yesterday evening to a great number of spectators, in a room up one pair of stairs at Surgeon’s hall in the Old-bailey. A large incision, or wound, is made from the neck to the bottom of the thorax or breast; another quite across the throat: and the abdomen, or lower part of the belly, is laid open, and the bowels taken away. The gentleman who attended, and exhorted the spectators to guard against the direful effects of passion, when even a nobleman could not be exempted from the fatal consequences attending it.
The title of Earl Ferrers devolves to the Hon. Washington Shirley, his next brother, a Captain in his Majesty’s navy, as likewise the family estate; neither of which are forfeited, as in cases of high treason, but the personal estate only. The reſent is the fifth Earl of the family.
— Caledonian Mercury, Monday 12 May, 1760 (source)
This is Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (18 August 1720 – 5 May 1760)
Earl Ferrers, as he lay in his Coffin at Surgeon’s hall (source)
