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he has branded her with infamy tell me why there is no
mention of her during the thirtyfour years between the
day she married him and the day she buried him. All those
women saw their men down and under: Mary, her

goodman John, Ann, her poor dear Willun, when he went
and died on her, raging that he was the first to go, Joan,
her four brothers, Judith, her husband and all her sons,
Susan, her husband too, while Susan’s daughter, Elizabeth,
to use granddaddy’s words, wed her second, having killed
her first.
O, yes, mention there is. In the years when he was
living richly in royal London to pay a debt she had to
borrow forty shillings from her father’s shepherd. Explain
you then. Explain the swansong too wherein he has
commended her to posterity.
He faced their silence.
To whom thus Eglinton:

You mean the will.

But that has been explained, I believe, by
jurists.
She was entitled to her widow’s dower
At common law. His legal knowledge was

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