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- http://www.archive.org/stream/increaseofcrimei00boonrich/increaseofcrimei00boonrich_djvu.txt
"My mother's brother, that I have just referred to, married Augusta Dillon. Her brother and the old Earl of Roscommon contended for some years for the earl- dom ; but the present earl's father gained the cause. Some years after, my uncle marrying, he determined on entering the ecclesiastical profession ; and, although he had been educated at Oxford, he had to re-study at Cambridge ; and he was not permitted by the bishop to accept a curacy until he resumed the old name that had been dropped for more than a hundred years : consequently, all of the family that remained unmarried did the same ; and he is at this time the Rev. James De la Hooke, Rector of Trinity Church, Bridgewater, England ;..."
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