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b Town Rec.
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after the publication hereof. In Westchester two, one to have the care of Westchester, Eastchester, Yonkers, and the Manor of Pelham, &c."a
But so few persons were properly qualified at this time, to ac_ cept the call of the vestry, that the act remained dormant in Westchester nearly two years. An attempt, however, was made by some of the vestry to have Mr. Warham Mather inducted, as appears by the following extract from the town records :-
" At a meeting held in Westchester, the seventh of May, 1695, Present, Justice Barnes and Justice Hunt, Capt. William Barnes President of the trustees :-
" Whereas, the freeholders and inhabitants of this town of Westchester and precincts, att this meeting have exprest their desires for the settling of Mr. Warham Mather amongst us as our minister for one whole year or longer ;- its therefore voated and agreed upon, that Mr. Justice Barnes and Mr. Justice Hunt and Mr. Edward Waters, churchwarden, with as many of the vestrymen as conveniently can be gott together, should agree with the said Mr. Warham Mather, and settle him with all ex- pedition.
Entered-EDWARD COLLIER, Clerk."b
Colonel Caleb Heathcote, a member of the Venerable Propa- gation Society, writing to the secretary thereof, in 1704, alludes to this agreement with Mather.c " It was unanimously agreed on through the county, to make choice of readers, which they accordingly did, and continued in those methods some time after which the people of Westchester, Eastchester, and a place called the Lower Yonckers, agreed with one Warren Mather." " After he (Mather) had been with them for some time, West- chester parish made choice of me for one of their churchwardens, in hopes of using my interest with Col. Fletcher to have Mather
* Acts of Prov. Assembly, N. Y. from 1691 to 1725.
b Westchester Town Rec. Lib. vi. 56.
c Warham Mather was the son of Eleazer, and grandson of Richard Mather, who was born at Louton, in Lancashire, A. D. 1596. See Mather's Magnalia.
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inducted to that living. I told them it was altogether impossible for me to comply with their desire, it being wholly repugnant to the laws of England to compel the subject to pay for the main- tenance of any minister who was not of the national church, and that it lay not in any Governor's power to help them, but since they were so zealous for having religion and good order settled amongst them, I would propose a medium in that matter, which was, that there being at Boston a French Protestant minister, one Mr. Bondet, a very good man, who was in orders by my Lord of London, and could preach both in English and French, and the people of New Rochelle being destitute of a minister, we would call Mr. Bondet to the living, and the parish being large enough to maintain two, we would likewise continue Mr. Mather and support him by subscriptions. The vestry seemed to be ex- tremely well pleased with this proposal, and desired me to send for Mr. Bondet, which I immediately did, hoping by that means to bring them over to the church, but Mather apprehending what I aimed at, persuaded the vestry to alter their resolutions, and when he came they refused to call him." Colonel Heatlı- cote now finding that it was impossible to settle the church at Westchester, so long as Mather remained, determined in the next place to devise ways to get him out of the county, which he was not long in effecting.a The Rev. John Miller, descri- bing the Province of New York, in 1695, says :- " There is a meeting house at Westchester, and a young man coming to settle there, without orders. There are 200 or 300 English and Dis- senters ; few Dutch."b
The old meeting house having fallen to decay, the following resolution was passed at a town meeting, held the 5th day of May, 1696 :- " It is voated and agreed upon that the meeting house shall be repaired forthwith, and that two men shall be chosen to see it done-Gabriel Legat, Josiah Hunt, is chosen to agree with a carpenter to repair the said meeting house, and to bring an account to the town of the cost and expence thereof
& Such was the law at this period that if any unqualified person was presented to a living, he that presented him could not afterwards present another, on the ground that no person that has the presentation to a benefice can do it twice.
b Description of the Prov. and City of N. Y. by Rev. John Miller.
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whereby a rate may be made to defraye the charge in so do- ing.""a
On the 3rd day of May, 1697, at a meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of the town and precincts of Westchester :- " It was voted and agreed upon, that there should be a Town House built, to keep courts in, and for the publick worship of God."b
Soon after this vote of the town, in the year 1699, an act of General Assembly was made to enable the respective towns with- in the whole province to build and repair their meeting houses, &c.c Whereupon the inhabitants of Westchester laid aside the prosecution of building the town house above, according to the said town vote, and took hold of the said act, by virtue whereof a new Parish Church was erected in 1700, and a rate laid and levied on all the inhabitants, without any distinction, towards defraying the expences.
The following resolutions were passed at a meeting of the trustees, held on the 8th of June, 1700 :---
" It is voted and agreed upon by the trustees aforesaid, that the rate shall be made up forthwith, and delivered to the constable, who shall have for collecting the same, six pence per pound :-
" Whereas att a general meeting held in the Borough town of Westchester, by the freeholders and inhabitants of said town and precincts, on the 3rd day of May, 1697, it was voted and agreed upon that there should be a town hall built to keep courts in, and for the publick worship of God, &c., but it being then neglected, the Mayor and Aldermen, and Trustees at this meeting, did order with a joynt consent, to build a house for the uses aforesaid, and a prison. The dimensions of the house is to be twenty-six feet square, 16 feet joynts, a square roof, 6 win- dow cases 5 feet square, &c. The trustees agreed with Richard Ward to build said house for £33, and with Erasmus Orton to build the prison for £5, which work is to be done by the 31st of October, next."d
The subjoined order relates to the cartage of timber and other material for the church, &c., " At a meeting held by the trustees the 14th of September, 1700, present, Josiah Hunt, Pres-
* Westchester Town Rec. Liber. v. 59.
& Westchester Town Rec. Liber. v. 141. " It had been previously voted and agreed upon that there should be a prison built with a town house upon it, accord- ing to the dimensions made by Col. Heathcote, Lib. v. p. 77.
c Laws of N. Y. vol. I. chapter lxxxiii. 37.
d Westchester Town Rec. Lib. v. 141.
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ident, Edward Waters, Joseph Haviland, John Hunt, Joseph Bayley, John Ferris, senr., and Richard Panton. "Tis voted and agreed upon that all that shall cart timber and stuff for the meeting house, shall have six shillings per diem ; and that Joseph Haviland and John Hunt shall agree with a carpenter for the timber work and the prison, as they shall see cause, &c Done in behalf of the Freeholders and Commonality of the town."a
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At a subsequent meeting of the trustees, held on the 26th day of October, A.D. 1700, "it was resolved that Richard Ward shall build the meeting house twenty-eight feet square, with a terret on the top, for forty pounds."b
In an address to the Venerable Propagation Society, the fol- lowing account is given of the building of this church :- " We, whose names are subscribed, do hereby certify that the church of Westchester was built by a rate laid, and levied on the in- habitants of the said town in proportion to their estates, in the year of our Lord, 1700; and that Mr. Morgan, a Presbyterian minister of Eastchester, did sometimes come to preach in it, un- til such time as Mr. Bartow came and took possession of it in the year 1702, since which time it has been supplied by him, &c."c
This building stood on the site of the present church, upon
· Westchester Town Rec. Lib. v. 145.
৳ Westchester Town Rec. Lib. v. 145.
c Hawks' New York M. S. S. from archives at Fulham, vol. i. 463.
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what was then styled the Town Green,a adjoining the old County Court-houseb and jail. It was built of wood, quadran- gular in form,c with a pyramidal roof and bell turret in the centre ; and was used for the worship of Almighty God until the year 1783, when it was removed, and the present edifice erected. It now stands near the church yard, on the property of Capt. Elnathan Hawkins, having been sold to Mrs. Sarah Ferris, the grand-mother of the late Mrs. Eliza Hawkins, by order of the vestry, in 1788.
The following extract relates to the election of church wardens and vestrymen for this parish, in pursuance of the Act of 1693.
At a meeting held by the Parishioners of Westchester Divi- sion, in the borough and town of Westchester, pursuant to an act of General Assembly, entitled an " act for the settling a min- istry and raising of a maintenance for them," this second Tues- day of January, 1701-2 :-
Present, Mr. Justice Barnes, Mr. Justice Baxter.
Churchwardens chosen at said time,
Col. Caleb Heathcote, Aldn. Josiah Hunt.
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Vestrymen chosen, Mr. John Pell, senr., for the Manor of Pelham, Mr. Joseph Drake, for Eastchester, Mr. Charles Vincent, for Yonkers.
a On the 5th of June, 1696, the trustees granted unto the Mayor and Aldermen of the Borough, for the use of the Corporation, part of the Green in said town, to erect a market house and settle the market. Lib. v. 63.
b The following extract is copied from the New York Post Boy, for Feb. 13, 1758 :- " We hear from Westchester that on Saturday night, the 4th instant, the court house at that place was unfortunately burnt to the ground. We have not heard yet how it happened."
e The Venerable Bede informs us, that in his time, the English Churches were square. Speaking of the building of St. Peter's Church, at York, in 627, by King Edwin, he says :- " Per quadrum cœpit œedificare basilicam." Vide Bedœ Hist Eccles. Lib. ii. chap. 14.
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For Westchester,
Mr. William Willett, Mr. Thomas Hunt, junr., of the West Farms, Mr. Joseph Haviland, Aldm. John Bayley, Mr. Richard Ward, Mr. John Buckbe, Edward Collier.
Entered by order,,
EDWARD COLLIER, Recorder.a
In the year 1702, came from England, the
REV'D. JOHN BARTOW, A. M.
who was the first rector of this parish, elected by the vestry under the Act of 1693. He was son of Thomas Bartow, de- scended from the Bertaut's of Brittany in France,b and was born at Crediton, in Devonshire, A. D. 1673. At an early age he was instructed by one Mr. Gregory, entered Christ College, Cambridge, Jan. 31st, 1689, where he was admitted a sizer under the tuition of Mr. Lovett, and graduated in 1692.c Enter- ing the ministry, he was inducted to the vicarage of Pampsford, in Cambridgeshire, May the 28th, 1698, and removed to America by leave of the Right Rev. Simon Patrick, the then Lord Bishop of Ely.
THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S ADMISSION OF MR. BAR- TOW TO THE MINISTERIAL FUNCTION IN THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK.
" HENRY : by divine permission, Lord Bishop of London, to all whom these presents, shall or may concern, health in our Lord God everlasting. Whereas, by
ª Westchester Town Rec. Lib. v. 145.
b The arms of the Bertautes or Bertaudes, en Bretagne, Du Hertray, Du Ha- mel, Du Pointpierre, de la Poissonniere, were :- d'or á la bande de sable, chargee de trois besants d'argent accompagne de six annelets de geules, suis en orle.
c Matriculation books of Christ College, Cambridge.
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virtue of an act of Parliament, made in ye : first year of ye : Reign of our Sovereign Lord and Lady, King William and Queen Mary, entitled, an act for ye : abrogation of ye oaths of supremity and allegiance, and appointing other oaths, it is provided and enacted, that every person, at his, or their respective admission to be incum- bent in any ecclesiastical promotion or dignity in ye Church of England, shall subscribe and declare before his ordinary, in manner and form as in ye : said act as contained; now know ye, that on ye : day of ye : dave hereof did personally appear before us, John Bartow, Clerk, to be admitted to ye : Ministerial Function in ye : Province of New York, in America, and subscribed as followeth, as by ye : said act is required, I, John Bartow, Clerk, do declare, that I will conforme to ye : Liturgy of the Church of England, as it is now by law established. In witness whereof, we have caused our seal manual to be affixed to these presents. Dated, the twenty-second day of the month of June, in ye : year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and two, and in ye twenty-seaventh year of our transla- tion."a
MR. BARTOW'S LICENSE FROM THE BISHOP OF LONDON TO OFFICIATE IN THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK.
" Henricus, permissione divina, Londonensis episcopus, dilecto nobis in Christo Johanni Bartow, clerico, salutem et gratiam, ad peragendum officium ministe- riale intra provinciam de Novo Eboraco, in America, in precibus cominunibus aliisque ministeriis ecclesiasticis ad officium ministeriale pertinentibus juxta formam descriptam in libro publicarum precum, auctoritate parliamenti hujus · inclyti regni angliæ ,in ea parte edita, et provisa, et canones, et constitutionis, in ea parte legitime stabilitas, et publicatas, et non aliter neque alio modo; tibi de cujus fidelitate morum integritate literarum scientia summa doctrina et diligentia plurimum confidemus, (præstituta penitus parte juramus totam de agnoscendo regiam supremam majestatam, juxta vim formam et effectum statuti parliamenti dicti regni angliæ, in ea parte editi et provisi, quam de canonica obedientia nobis et successoribus nostris in omnibus recitis et honestis per te præstanda et exhi- benda subscriptisque pertinentibus illis articulis mentionatis in tricesimo sexto capitulo libri constitutorum, sive canonum ecclesiasticorum, anno Domini, 1604, regia auctoritate editorum et promulgatorum licentiam facultatum nostram con- cedimus et impertamur per precedentes, ad nostrum beneplacitum dum tanat duraturas, in cujus rei testimoninm sigillam nostram, (quam in similibus ple- rumque utimur,) præsentibus apponi fecimus dat vicesimo secundo die mensis Junii, anno Domini millesimo septengentesimo, secundo nostra translatione vi- cesimo septimo."b
a Surrogate's Office, N. Y. Rec. of Wills, vol. v. p. 79.
b Surrogate's office N. Y. Lib. vi.
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The following documents relate to his induction.
MANDATE FROM GOVERNOUR CORNBURY TO IN- DUCT MR. JOHN BARTOW INTO THE RECTORY OF WESTCHESTER.
"Edwardus illustrissim Vice comes Cornbury Provincia Novi Eboraciin Ame- rica Strategus et Imperator et ejusdem ; Vice-Thalassiarcha, &c.
Universis et Singulis Rectorib Vicar : Capellanis: Curat : Clericis et Minis- tris quibuscumq in et per totam prædict provinciam ubilibet constitutis ac etiam Honorab Caleb Heathcote armig et Josia Hunt Eccsia Paroch'lis de Westchester, Eastchester, Yonkers et Man de Pellham, in dicta Provincia in pro hoc tempore Adilibus, Salutem.
Cum Dilectum in Christo Johnem Bartow clericum ad Rectoriam sive Ecclãm Prõalem Prædict de Westchester, Eastchester, Yonkers et Man de Pellham in America jam vacantem præsentatu Rectorem ejusdem Rectoric Sive Ecclæ pro- alis in et de eadem institus vobis conjunctim et divisim comitto et fermiter in- jungendo mando, quatenus eundem Johnem Bartow clericum sive procurat suum legitīm ejus nomine et pro se in realem actualem et corporalem possessionem ipsius Rectoriœ sive Ecclæ proalis de Westchester, Eastchester, Yonkers et Man de Pellham prædict. Glebarum, Jureumq et pertinentiu suor universor confera- tis inducatis inducive faciatis : et defendatis inductum, et quid in premissis fece- ritis me aut alium Judicem in hac parte competentum quemcunq debite (cum ad id congrue fueritis requisiti) certificetis seu sic certificet ille vestrum qui præsens hoc mandatum fuerit executus. Dat sub sigillo progat dict Provincia decimo nono die Novembris ano salutis millesimo septengentessimo secundo."
CORNBURY.
CERTIFICATE OF MR. BARTOW'S INDUCTION INTO THE PARISH CHURCH OF WESTCHESTER, &c.
"Virtute infra scripti mandati Præsentia Hugh Farquhar & Thomas Hunt, Jo- seph Haviland, Daniel Clark & Edward Collier nos Guielmus Vesey Clericus & Josias Hunt adelis Parochial's De Westchester & Eastchester &c induximus Reverandu Johanem Bartow Clericu in Ecclesiam Parochialem De Eastchester & Westchester, Yonkers et Man de Pellham et in realem actualem et corporatem possessionem ipsius Rectorill sive Ecclesice Parochialis et prædict Glebarā juriŭ et pertinentiū suorā universonē ejusdum movilus et consue tri divibus solity ano Domini 1702 in cujus rei testimoniu presentibus subscripsimus Die 6to Decembris Anno supra dicto."
GULIELMUS VESEY NEO EBORACI RECTOR. JOSIAH HUNT CHURCHWARDEN.
HUGH FARQUHAR. JOSEPH HAVILAND. THOMAS HUNT. DANL. CLARK. EDWARD COLLIER.
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' We whose names are underwritten doe certifie & declare That on Sunday the 6th day of December Anno Dom. 1702, John Bartow, Clerk, after his induetion, did in the Parish Church of Westchester Read morning and evening service according to the exact form by act of Parliament prescribed & immediately after the reading of ye aforesaid service did declare his unfeigned assent and consent to all and every thing contained and prescribed in the book of comön prayers as the Law in that case direets, before ye congregation on the said day assembled : and also did read ye book of ye 39 articles of the Church of England with the Ratification, & immediately after ye reading of ye aforesaid articles & Ratification before the Con- gregation ; did deelare at the abovesaid time and place, his unfeigned assent & consent to them and to all things therein contained. In testymony whereof we who where present have hereunto subscribed our names this 6th day of Decembr. Annoq Dom 1702: Joseph Haviland, William Vesey, H. Collier, Thomas Hunt Hugh Farquhar, William Willett, Josiah Hunt, John Williams."a
It appears that Mr. Bartow was at first appointed to the Parish of Rye : for in a letter to him from the secretary of the society, the latter says :- " That the Society were displeased for his set- tling at Westchester, being by my Lord of London sent for Rye." b
"I did, in October last," (observes Colonel Heathcote,) "give my Lord of London my reasons for the necessity of his being settled at Westchester, the people in that place having been the first in this county who desired a minister of the church, &c."c To this Mr. Bartow alludes in his first letter to the society.
MR. BARTOW TO MR. WHITFIELD OR MR. SHUTE.
Westchester, in New- York Province, 4th Nov. 1702.
SIR :
"My Lord Cornbury is pleased to fix my abode at Westchester, at the request of the vestry, and I suppose I shall enjoy the fifty pound per annum, which is settled upon the ministry by act of assembly, though there has been great endeavours made this ses- sion to annul that act, but we are safe as long as my Lord Corn- bury is Governor. There is also fifty pounds settled upon the
a Surrogate's office, N. Y. Rec. of Wills, vol. v. p. 79, 80.
' Hawks' New York M. S. S. from archives at Fulham.
c See Col. Heathcote's letter, April 10, 170.1.
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ministry at Rye, sixty pounds at Jamaica, sixty pounds at Hemp- stead, and forty pounds per annum at Richmond: all which places I hope the Reverend and Honorable Society will take some speedy care to supply with ministers of the Church of England. The hundred acres of glebe my Lord of London ob- tained of her Majesty for Westchester, is all a wilderness, there never was any house upon it, nor any part of it cultivated; the meanest laborer here has three shillings per diem wages, so that it will be a vast charge to make it habitable ; what I can bestow upon it in my time I will, but I cannot expect the assistance of the Society, there being such pressing occasions for ministers. As I had not time to furnish myself with books in England, I hope the society will bestow some upon me, or I beg you would be so kind as to send me these following, and let the booksellers be paid out of my allowance ; and you will ever oblige, Worthy Sir;
Your most humble and devoted servant," JOHN BARTOW.
"1702. P. S. I have been at great expenses, but I do not grudge it in the service of that God who I trust will bless me in my endeavours. We have a small house built here for public worship, of boards, but there is neither desk, pulpit, nor bell in it. The inhabitants indeed live all upon their own, but are generally poor ; my best friend is the gentleman my Lord of London, recommended me unto, Col. Graham, who is a very worthy and ingenuous Gentleman, and a 'great lover of the Church. I have neither Church Bible nor Common Prayer Book, which I hope the society will send me, unto whom I de- sire you would give my humble duty.
Mr. Keith, Mr. Ennis, Mr. Vesey, Mr. Mott, Mr. Talbot, and myself, met last week at York, to contrive the most proper me- thods of settling the church, at the request of the worthy Col. Nicholson, who gave £25 towards bearing our charges, an ac- count of which you will have."a
· Hawks' New York M. S. S. from archives at Fulham, vol. i. 10, 11.
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The following letter from Mr. Bartow to the Secretary of the Venerable Society, was probably written in 1702, or the year after, although I have given the date as it is in the manuscript from which it was copied :
MR. BARTOW TO THE SECRETARY.
Westchester, New- York, Ist Dec., 1707.
SIR :
" After a voyage of eleven weeks, we arrived at New-York, Sept. 29th, 1702, where we found a very mournful town, there dying near twenty persons daily for some months.ª I lodged one night in the town, and next day went to Col. Graham's, in Westchester, and lodged also one night, and the next day some of the town of Westchester came for me, and desired me to go along with them and give them a sermon the next Sabbath day,b which I readily consented to do, it being in my way to Rye, to which I was designed. Col. Heathcote and some of the chief inhabitants being at church, the latter, with his approba- tion, invited me to stay amongst them ; in regard, it was the County Town, and reasonably ought to be supplyed first, which I referred to the determination of my Lord Cornbury ; my goods being on board still, (as I remember.) On Monday I returned to York, and Mr. Vesey engaged me to preach for him on an appointed fast, that week, after which I returned to Westches- ter, and preached either there or at York every Sunday, until my Lord Cornbury returned from Albany, when, with some of Westchester, who were very desirous I should stay with them, I went to Jamaica to wait on his Lordship, (who went there by reason of the sickness at New-York,) to deliver him my creden- tials and receive his commands, which were to continue in Westchester, to which place I was soon after called by the ves-
" This is supposed to have been the yellow fever, although it was not so called in 1702. It was brought from St. Thomas's, and proved very fatal in New York. b This was on the 3rd of Oct., 1702.
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try, and received instruments of induction from his Lordship; but the troubles that soon followed to separate Eastchester and New Rochelle from belonging to Westchester (of which I have given you an account) were not inconsiderable."
" Westchester was not wholly free from the mortal distemper at New-York, and such as were sick I visited, and baptized one man, (aged forty years) a few hours before he died, who seemed thankful that he had at last such a blessed opportunity after so long neglect. The first half year being winter, I lodged at a public house, preaching once every Sunday, and upon occasion, visiting the sick. After winter was over, I lived at Col. Gra- ham's, six miles from the church, and all the summer preach't twice every Sunday, sometimes at Westchester and sometimes at Jamaica, on Long Island, abont two miles distant from Mr. Graham's, at my own charge, nor have I had any board given me since I came, and once I met with great disturbance at Jamaica. Mr. Hobbart, their Presbyterian minister, having been for some time at Boston, returned to Jamaica the Saturday night as I came to it, and sent to me at my lodgings (being then in company with our Chief Justice, Mr. Mumpesson, and Mr. Carter, her Majesty's comptroller,) to know if I intended to preach on the morrow ; I sent him answer Idid intend it. The next morning the bell rung as usual, but before the last time ringing, Mr. Hobbart was got into the church, and had began his service, of which notice was given me, whereupon I went into the church, and walked straight way to the pew, expecting Mr. Hobbart would desist, being, he knew, I had orders from the Governor to officiate there, but he persisted, and I forbore to make any interruption. In the afternoon I prevented him, be- ginning the service of the Church of England before he came ; who was so surprised, when after he came to the church door and saw me performing divine service, that he suddenly started back, and went aside to an orchard hard by, and sent in some to give the word that Mr. Hobbart would preach under a tree. Then I perceived a whispering through the church, and an uneasiness of many people, some going out, some seemed amazed, not yet determined to go or stay ; in the meantime, some that were gone out returned again for their seats, and then we
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