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Sherston, William

Church: Wells Cathedral (in Wells, Somerset).
Relation: Child.
Sex: Male.
Virtue(s): Cheerfulness, Duties of child, Gentility*, Good child, Ingenuousness, Liveliness*, Modesty, Patience*, Piety, Sweetness, Unaffectedness*, Virtues in general.
Afterlife: Looked for.
Literature: Poetry*.
Year of death: 1770.
Year of headstone: 1793.
Age at death: 19 (classed as: Youth).

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