Then the poet-undertaker Thomas Lynch began writing books like "The Undertaking" and "Bodies in Motion and at Rest" and getting the public to think that undertakers could be sensitive too.
Since war is the most serious of government undertakings, we could safely say this is as important a feature of his time in office as anything else.
No one is apparently concerned with whether or not the intervention was a good idea, because if it's determined to have been a dubious undertaking it could get in the way of those whose ambitions include undertakings that are even more dubious.
However, these surveys are expensive undertakings, and useful information could be gained from analysis of well-conducted routine population and clinical surveillance activities.
But the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt (given the powers stripped from Cable) has delayed a decision on passing the deal on to the Competition Commission, so that he can scrutinise undertakings offered by News Corp that could meet Ofcom's concerns.
Mr Hunt said: "News Corporation says that it wishes me to consider undertakings in lieu which it contends could sufficiently alleviate the concerns I have, such that I should accept the undertakings instead of making a reference".
The chilling effect on press freedoms posed by such undertakings, especially for thinly capitalized publications, couldn't be clearer.
Really we were waiting for the Trust to come up with an offer and the Trust was waiting for some type of relaxation of undertakings from GMC so the GMC could have maybe relaxed things a little bit sooner because there was really a year wasted and I could have been back to work.
The announcement emphasised that the £3.7m is required to pay creditors and meet working capital needs, and that if the offer fails, RIFC could fail to meet their undertakings.
"In signing the required loyalty oath I must also attest to my belief that such an oath violates my right to free speech, and could be construed to express undertakings that are contrary to my nonviolent religious beliefs as a Quaker," she said in the new statement.
