This print is an exact representation of a boy about 12 years old (engraving)

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 opened from that period tell the time above mentioned when the church was pulled down. The extrordinary circumstance of this boy is that his skin fibres and intestines are all dried and very little of his bones appears, and weighs about 18 pounds. He is in the posession of J Rogers, No 2 Maiden Lane, Wood Street, London, this print may be had price 2s, with a ticket for a sight of the boy.