for subsequent visitors. {21b} At a funeral in 1817, Granholm, an
officer in the Swedish Navy, seeing the lid of Swedenborg's coffin
loose, abstracted the skull, and hawked it about amongst London
Swedenborgians, but none would buy. Dr. Wahlin, pastor of the
Swedish Church, recovered what he supposed to be the stolen skull,
had a cast of it taken, and placed it in the coffin in 1819. The
cast which is sometimes seen in phrenological collections is
obviously not Swedenborg's: it is thought to be that of a small
female skull."

In the latter part of the reign of George III a mausoleum was built
in the Tomb House at Windsor Castle. On its completion, in the
spring of 1813, it was determined to open a passage of communication
with St. George's Chapel, and in constructing this an opening was
accidentally made in one of the walls of the vault of Henry VIII,
through which the workmen could see three coffins, one of which was
covered with a black velvet pall. It was known that Henry VIII and
Queen Jane Seymour were buried in this vault, but a question had
been raised as to the place of Charles the First's interment,
through the statement of Lord Clarendon, that the search made for
the late King's coffin at Windsor (with a view to its removal to
Westminster Abbey) had proved fruitless. Sir Henry Halford, in his
Account, appended to his Essays and Orations, 1831, {22} thus
describes the examination of the palled coffin.

"On representing the circumstance to the Prince Regent, his R. H.
perceived at once that A DOUBTFUL POINT IN HISTORY MIGHT BE CLEARED
UP BY OPENING THIS VAULT; and accordingly his R. H. ordered an
examination to be made on the first convenient opportunity. This
was done on the First of April last [i.e., 1813], the day after the