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Life and Death

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HE person we intend to treat upon in the following discourse, is one Sheffery Morgan, born in Derby, a place well known in Wales, his father being a man of no small account, kept two or three hogs, and brewed week for week, the year round, half a peck of malt; but, being a man so well to pass in the world, resolved to bring up his son Sheffery, scholar like; and in order thereunto, put hur to the greatest school in those parts, where he improved hur time so well, that in six or seven years hur was able to spell hur name with a