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Edward Bright, a man weighing forty three and a half stone. Engraving by Thornton, 1786.
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Edward Bright, a man weighing forty three and a half stone. Engraving by Thornton, 1786.

1786

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Lettering: Mr. Edwd. Bright, late of Maldon in Essex, who died Novr.10. 1750. Aged 29 years. He weighed 43 stone and 1/2 (14lb to the stone) which is 5 hundred 1 quarter 21 pounds. ; Thornton sculp.

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