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my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at an age when he and she both had more occasion for a nurse than a parson.
Charlotte Charke
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Charlotte Charke
Age: 47 †
Born: 1713
Born: January 13
Died: 1760
Died: April 6
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