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23 one of the best housewives in the parish, and he soon got good custom.

He increased much in store, and in a short time become of much repute in the parish, and so well respected, that he was chosen sheriff of London, died before he come to be Lord Mayor, and left his wife very rich.

Jack of Newbury, otherwise called Mr John Winchcomb, being grown old; fell sick, and in a few days died, and his wife buried him with great pomp.

He left his wife a great estate, and many legacies to friends and poor relations.

And the greatest part of all the country people thereabouts came to see the old man laid in the grave where we will leave him, with this epitaph: