The desiccated corpse of a boy, about twelve years old, found in a vault under Saint Botolph's Aldgate Old Church in 1742. Coloured etching by H. Rogers, ca. 1742.

1742

Lettering: R. Rogers fecit ; This print is an exact representation of a boy about 12 years old who was found erect with his cloaths on in a vault under Saint Botolph's Aldgate Old Church in the year 1742, and is supposed to have been shut in at the time of the plague in London 1665, as the vault had not been open'd from that period till the time above mentioned when the church was pull'd down.