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Newspaper cutting from unidentified publication. Describes the life of John Metcalf of Knaresborough, who was blinded by smallpox at the age of six. He later bore arms with the company of William Thornton of Thornville, who raised a company at the commencement of the 1745 rebellion.

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Thornton, William,
Metcalf, John