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Footnote 1: [(return)]
Dr. Burney says he was "equal in science, if not in genius, to the best musicians of his age."
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Born in his father's house, at the Spread Eagle in Bread-street, Cheapside, December 9, 1608.
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W. Kennedy—in the Amulet for 1829.
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From this custom probably originated that in England, of widows concealing their hair for a stated period after the death of their husbands. Indeed, we know of more than one instance of a widow closely cutting off her hair. But these sorrowful observances are becoming less and less frequent.—ED.</>
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Morant's Essex, vol. i. p. 57.