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Some time before bis death, be difpofed of a curi¬ 
ous copy of Catesbys Carolina , to Mr Bartlet of 
Lamb’ s-Conduit~ Street ; the plates were highly coloured 
by himfelf, and he frequently exprefied his opinion, 
that they were equal to the author’s original work, 
Mr. Edwards was of a middle flature, rather in¬ 
clined to corpulence : of a liberal difpofition and a 
chearful converfation. All his acquaintance experi¬ 
enced his benevolent temper, and his poor neigh¬ 
bours frequently partook of his bounty. 
His diffidence and humility were always apparent, 
and to perlons who had a talle for ftudies congenial 
to his own, he was a moll entertaining as well as 
communicative companion. 
Some years before his death the alarming depreda¬ 
tions of a cancer, which baffled all the efforts of 
pliyfical fkill, deprived him of the fight of one of his 
eyes: he alfo fiiffered much from the flone, a com¬ 
plaint to which at different periods of life he had 
been fubje£l. Yet it has been remarked, that in the 
feverefl paroxyfms of mifery he was fcarcely known 
to utter a Angle complaint. 
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