Read The Damnation of John Donellan Online
Authors: Elizabeth Cooke
and TB's mistress
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widow of the sixth Baronet
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,
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,
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,
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,
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role of
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her suite of bedrooms
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and TB's venereal disease
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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employs a tutor for TB
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opposes Theodosia's wedding
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â80
reconciled to Theodosia's marriage
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defers to Donellan in household matters
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Newnham Wells
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,
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administers medicine smelling of bitter almonds to TB
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â7,
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â36,
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â2,
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calls for apothecary as TB froths at the mouth
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and Donellan's cleaning and removal of medicine bottles
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â13,
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â8,
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â5,
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â45,
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calm response to TB's death
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refuses to pay Rattray's and Wilmer's fees
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apparently not suspicious of Donellan
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attends the autopsy on TB
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,
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testifies at inquest
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â90,
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â5,
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â8,
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â2,
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files charges against Donellan
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tension between her and Anna Maria
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alleged poisoning of pack of hounds
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,
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,
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illness
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â8
a religious woman
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TB's case rests on her account
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testimony at the trial
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â55,
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,
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â2
treatment of Sarah Blundell
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alleged attempt at blackmailing Donellan
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â5
given laurel water by Donellan
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preservation of her line
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motive issue
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â42
Boughton, Anne (daughter of Mary Ramsey)
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Boughton, Anne (Edward Boughton, 8th Baronet's sister)
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Boughton, Anne (née Brydges, then Arthur)
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Boughton, Caroline
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Boughton, Catherine (née Shukburgh d. c1725) (TB's step-great-grandmother)
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Boughton, Charles
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Boughton, Sir Edward, 5th Baronet (1689â1722)
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Boughton, Sir Edward, 6th Baronet (1719â2) (TB's father) and One-Handed Boughton
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first wife (Anne Brydges)
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â7,
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looks for a second bride
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interests
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household expenses
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â41
marries Anna Maria
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âMy Estate'
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â40
will
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â2
his mistress, and Anna Maria's misery
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,
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and Grace Shukburgh's land rights
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â6
and Theodosia's marriage
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Boughton, Sir Edward, 6th Baronet (1719â72) (TB's father)
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Boughton, Sir Edward, 8th Baronet (1742â94)
lives at Poston Hall
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the family black sheep
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lives with his serving maid
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,
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appearance
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in debt to his brother
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â8
delighted at TB's death
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,
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and Donellan's trial
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Anna Maria asks if his sister will be her companion
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â3
financial incentive for killing TB
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death
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Boughton, Edward (sixteenth century)
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Boughton, Eliza
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Boughton, Elizabeth (née de Allesley)
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Boughton, Elizabeth (née Willington)
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Boughton, Francis
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Boughton, Humphrey
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Boughton, Jane (née Coningsby)
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â1
Boughton, Katherine
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Boughton, Lucy
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Boughton, Mary (née Greville)
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Boughton, Mary (née Ramsey)
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Boughton, Mary (wife of Rt. Rev. John Egerton, Bishop of Durham)
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Boughton, one-Handed
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Boughton, Shukburgh
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Boughton, Theodosia Anna Maria Ramsay (d. 1758)
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Boughton, Sir Theodosius Edward Allesley, 7th Baronet (1760â80) birth
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venereal disease
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â7,
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Donellan rescues him from harm
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150
â1,
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personality
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10
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22
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48
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49
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234
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243
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253
and his mother's will
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â5
suite of bedrooms
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surviving documents by
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â6
his intended inheritance
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238
â9
Occuli indicus
berries
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fishing trip the night before his death
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arsenic for killing rats
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â50,
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not well before taking the medicine
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Anna Maria administers medicine smelling of bitter almonds
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visible effects of the medicine
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death (30 August 1780)
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rumours that he was poisoned
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Rattray and Wilmer examine his body
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funeral
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belated autopsy on
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âix,
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coroner's inquest
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his fortune
130
appearance
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possible suicide or accidental dose
243
â4
modern methods of investigation
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Boughton, Theodosius Willington (d. 1761)
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Boughton, Thomas
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Boughton, Sir William, 1st Baronet
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Boughton, Sir William, 4th Baronet (c1663â1716) (TB's great-grandfather)
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Boughton, William (grandfather of the first baronet)
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Boughton, William (son of Catherine)
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Boughton, William (son of Grace)
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creation of the Boughton baronetcy (1641)
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tombs at Newbold-on-Avon church
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enviable position in Warwickshire society
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and the Denbighs
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high-profile figures at Court
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loyalty to the Crown
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coat of arms
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a family of dramatic opposites
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Donellan's
Defence
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Boughton-Leigh, sir Charles
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Boultby, Joseph
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Bowes, Mary
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Boyne, John
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Bree, Robert
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Bretford, Warwickshire
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Brighton
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Brookswell
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Brownsover Hall
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Brudenall, Eliza (née Boughton)
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Brydges, James
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sells Hewitt
Occuli indicus
berries
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failed attempts to do an autopsy on TB
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â7,
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â5,
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â2,
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tells Wheler of his offer
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belated autopsy on TB
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âviii,
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â3
testimony at the trial
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â6,
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Buller, Sir Justice Francis
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convinced of Donellan's guilt before the trial
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aggressively punitive reputation
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illustrious career
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nickname (Justice Thumb)
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appearance
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background
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â7
personality
117
meeting with Cradock
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â8
and types of poison
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â8
and Hunter's testimony
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â200,
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sentencing
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â10
criticism of
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â5
death
117
Buller, Susanna (née yarde)
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Bunbury, Lady Sarah
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Burke, Edmund
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Burke, Peter:
Celebrated Trials Connected with the Aristocracy
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Burton (a carpenter)
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Burwell, Lincolnshire
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C
Cadogan, Earl
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Caldecott, James
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Carlisle House, Soho Square, London
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Carr, Mr
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Carrickfergus garrison
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Cave, William
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Cavendish Place, London
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celery
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Chaplin, Arnold
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