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[[File:Cock lane ghost.png|250px|thumb|alt=A monochrome illustration of a narrow street, viewed from a corner, or intersection. A large three-storey building is visible on the right of the image. The ground floor has three windows, the first and second floors have two windows each. The roof appears to contain a row of windows, for a loft space. The word "KING" is written between the first and second floors, and a sign, "(contracted; show full)spital|lying-in hospital]] as principal [[lady-in-waiting]], the critic and controversialist Bishop [[John Douglas (Anglican bishop)|John Douglas]], and Dr George Macaulay.  A Captain Wilkinson was also included on the committee; he had attended one séance armed with a pistol and stick; the former to shoot the source of the knocking, and the latter to make his escape (the ghost had remained silent on that occasion).  James Penn and John Moore were also on the committee, but its most prominent member was Dr
. [[Samuel Johnson]],<ref>{{Harvnb|Grant|1965|pp=56–57}}</ref> who documented the séance, held on 1&nbsp;February 1762:

[[File:Samuel Johnson by Joshua Reynolds.jpg|right|thumb|upright|alt=A half-length portrait of an elderly, and overweight, gentleman.  He wears a brown waistcoat and blazer, with gold buttons, a white collar, and a grey wig.  His left hand hovers close to his abdomen.  The background is a dark, solid blue/black.|A committee whose members included Dr [[Samuel Johnson]] concl(contracted; show full)

On or about 25&nbsp;February, a pamphlet sympathetic to Kent's case was published, called ''The Mystery Revealed'', and most likely written by [[Oliver Goldsmith]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Goldsmith|Cunningham|1854|p=364}}</ref>  Meanwhile, Kent was still trying to clear his name, and on 25&nbsp;February he went to the vault of St
. John's, accompanied by Aldrich, the undertaker, the clerk and the parish [[Sexton (office)|sexton]].  The group was there to prove beyond any doubt that a recent newspaper report, which claimed that the supposed removal of Fanny's body from the vault accounted for the ghost's failure to knock on her coffin, was false.  The undertaker removed the lid to expose Fanny's corpse, "and a very awful shocking sight it was".<ref>{{Harvnb|Grant|1965|pp=76–77}}</ref>  For Moo(contracted; show full)[[Category:18th century in London]]
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