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Coalbrookdale ; and that, at his own express desire, he was buried in an 

 iron coffin, imder very peculiar circumstances. 



Mr. Jackson asserted that, (though it could scarcely be hoped at a 

 period so remote from his birth, being now one hundred and fifty years, 

 it would ever be proved) there was good reason to believe that Wilkinson 

 was born near Clifton, where his parents resided; near and not at, because 

 it was certain that he was born in a market cart, and, that being so, the 

 event most probably occured whilst his mother was returning from Work- 

 ington Market to Clifton, a mai'ket two miles distant from that town. 



