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lives in London, is an entry-clerk in the court of 
Chancery, and fupplies country attornies with their 
writs, and lives in a lane or court near Gray’s- Inn, 
Holborn. 
I went myfelf to view and examine this very ex- 
traordinary and fuprifing, but melancholy fubjedt ; 
a lad entering the fifteenth year of his age, whofe 
flature is no more than two feet feven inches, and 
weight thirteen pounds j labouring under all the mife- 
ries and calamities of very old age ; being weak and 
emaciated, his eyes dim, his hearing very bad, his coun- 
tenance fallen, his voice very low and hollow ; a dry 
hufky inward cough, low and hollow ; his head 
hanging down before, fo that his chin touches his 
bread; confequently his fhoulders are raifed, and 
his back rounded, not unlike a hump-back. His 
teeth are all decay’d and rotten, except one fore- 
tooth below. He is fo weak, that he cannot Hand 
eredt without a fupport. 
The father and mother both told me, that he was 
naturally fprightly, tho’ weakly, until he was feven 
years old, would attempt to fing and play about, 
and then weighed nineteen pounds, and was as tall as, 
if not taller than, at prefent, naturally ftrait, well- 
grown, and in due proportion : but from that period 
he hath gradually declined, and grew weaker, lofing 
his teeth by degrees, and is now reduced to the un- 
happy flate I have been defcribing. The mother 
is a very jolly healthy woman, in the prime of life : 
the father enjoys the fame bl effing. They both al- 
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