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XXVII. A Letter f no m Dr. T. Coe, Ploy- 
fician at Chelmsford in Efl'ex, to Dr. 
Cromwell Mortimer, Seer . R. S. concern- 
ing Mr. Bright, the fat Man at Malden 
in Efl'ex. 
S I I\, Chelmsford, April 16, 1751. 
Read May 9 T NOW fend you a plain but true and 
JL authentic account of an extraordinary 
man, whom you yourfelf have feen, and whom I 
have known ever hnce he was a boy, viz. Mr. 
Edward Blight, grocer, late of Malden in Effex, who 
died there the 10 of November laft in the 30 year 
of his age. He was a man fo extremely fat, and of 
Inch an uncommon bulk and weight, that I believe 
there are very few, if any, fuch inftances to be 
found in any country, or upon record in any books ; 
at lead; I have never heard or read any genuine ac- 
count of a man, who was equal, or even came near 
to him in weight. I know, that Dr. Allen, in his 
Syticp/is univerfa medicina praBiue, quotes Senner- 
tus for a woman of ^50 pounds, and for a man, 
who weighed 600 pounds ; and Chambers, in his 
Dictionary, mentions the fame precifely in the dime 
way; which therefore I fuppofe he took from Allen. 
But the numbers are falfly printed in Allen ; for, as 
they ftand in Sennertus cap. dc corpulentia nimia , the 
weight of the woman is 480 pounds, and that of 
the man feveral pounds more than 400. 
If the following ftory of Mr. Bright fliould exceed 
the faith of any in this prefent age, there are a great 
many 
