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63-556: Macro was the eldest son of Thomas Macro, grocer, alderman, and five times chief magistrate of Bury St Edmunds (died 26 May 1737, aged 88). Thomas Macro lived and made his fortune in the ancient house in the Meat Market in Bury, usually known, from the observatory on its top, as Cupola House , and he purchased the estate of Little Haugh, in the neighbouring parish of Norton , for his country house. He married, on 9 January 1678-9, Susan,

126-531: A great fire broke out in Eastgate Street, which resulted in 160 dwellings and 400 outhouses being destroyed. The town developed into a flourishing cloth-making town, with a large woollen trade, by the 14th century. In 1405 Henry IV granted another fair. Elizabeth I in 1562 confirmed the charters which former kings had granted to the abbots. The reversion of the fairs and two markets on Wednesday and Saturday were granted by James I in fee farm to

189-456: A bookbinder, and business habits, made him a prosperous tradesman. For many years he owned the best collection of old books among provincial dealers, and was long the first secondhand bookseller in Norwich. His first catalogue was printed in 1779, and his last in 1808; they contained many rare volumes, which he knew how to price at their full value. Among the libraries purchased by him was that of

252-428: A friend of the family since about 1715, created decorative work in the house and produced about twenty paintings, some original and others in the manner of other artists. Tillemans died at Little Haugh in 1734, and was buried in the churchyard of Stowlangtoft ; Macro soon afterwards commissioned a bust of Tillemans by John Michael Rysbrack , and one of Rysbrach himself. Macro died at Little Haugh on 2 February 1767, and

315-411: A partner in his printing business and retired from it in 1798. In 1772 Beatniffe produced the first edition of his excellent little Norfolk Tour, or Traveller's Pocket Companion , being a concise description of all the noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, as well as of the principal towns and other remarkable places in the county . A second edition appeared in 1773, the third in 1777, the fourth in 1786,

378-404: A shrewd, cold, inflexible fellow, who traded principally in old books, and held out but little encouragement to a youth who rarely had money to expend. ... The principal feature of this man's character was suspicion of strangers, and a constant apprehension lest he should dispose of any of his libri rarissimi to some cunning wight or professed collector. If any customer was announced as coming from

441-478: Is St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds , where Mary Tudor, Queen of France and sister of Tudor king Henry VIII , was re-buried, six years after her death, having been moved from the abbey after her brother's Dissolution of the Monasteries . Queen Victoria had a stained glass window fitted into the church to commemorate Mary's interment. Moreton Hall , a Grade II*listed building by Robert Adam , houses

504-611: Is a cathedral as well as market town and civil parish in the West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk , England. The town is best known for Bury St Edmunds Abbey and St Edmundsbury Cathedral . Bury is the seat of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich of the Church of England , with the episcopal see at St Edmundsbury Cathedral . In 2011, it had a population of 45,000. The town, originally called Beodericsworth,

567-797: Is also home to the Chapel of the Suffolk and Royal Anglian Regiments . The town has other Anglican churches: St Edmund's Catholic Church , located in Westgate Street, is the Roman Catholic parish church of Bury St Edmunds. Founded by the Jesuits in 1763, the present church building is grade II listed . It was built in 1837. It is administered by the Diocese of East Anglia in its Bury St Edmunds deanery. Bury St Edmunds has several former church and chapel buildings: The Theatre Royal

630-543: Is generally low, at under 600 mm (24 in), and spread fairly evenly throughout the year. The town has a Christian heritage dating back to the foundation of the abbey in 1020. Today there are many active churches in the town. In the centre of Bury St Edmunds lie the remains of an abbey , surrounded by the abbey gardens. The abbey is a shrine to Saint Edmund , the Saxon King of the East Angles . The abbey

693-636: Is located in the middle of an undulating area of East Anglia known as the East Anglian Heights, with land to the east and west of the town rising to above 100 metres (330 ft), though parts of the town itself are as low as 30 m (100 ft) above sea level where the Rivers Lark and Linnet pass through it. There are two Met Office reporting stations in the vicinity of Bury St Edmunds, Brooms Barn (elevation 76 m or 249 ft), 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (10 kilometres) west of

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756-555: Is provided by BBC East and ITV Anglia . Television signals are received from the Tacolneston TV transmitter and the local relay transmitter. The town's local radio stations are BBC Radio Suffolk on 104.6 FM, Heart East on 96.4 FM and RWSfm on 103.3 FM, a community radio station that broadcast from the town. The local newspapers are the East Anglian Daily Times and Bury Free Press . Many pubs in

819-430: Is said — to Richard Beatniffe , bookseller in that city, who resold them at a very large profit. The manuscripts were sold for him by Christie of Pall Mall in 1820, and were purchased — forty-one lots by Dawson Turner and the rest by Hudson Gurney — for £700. Attribution Bury St Edmunds Bury St Edmunds ( / ˈ b ɛr i s ə n t ˈ ɛ d m ən d z / ), commonly referred to locally as Bury,

882-518: Is the civic church of Bury St Edmunds and the third largest parish church in England. It was part of the abbey complex and originally was one of three large churches in the town (the others being St James, now St Edmundsbury Cathedral, and St Margaret's, now gone). It is renowned for its magnificent hammer-beam "angel" roof, and is the final resting place of Mary Tudor, Queen of France , Duchess of Suffolk and favourite sister of Henry VIII . St Mary's

945-650: Is the smaller Old Cannon Brewery . Just outside the town, on the site of RAF Bury St Edmunds , is Bartrums Brewery, originally based in Thurston , and to the north is the Brewshed brewery, located in Ingham. The Greene King pub The Nutshell is situated in the centre of the town, and is one of several that claim to be Britain's smallest public house . Bury's largest landmark is the British Sugar factory near

1008-664: The A14 , which processes sugar beet into refined crystal sugar. It was built in 1925 when the town's MP, Walter Guinness , was Minister of Agriculture , and for many of its early years was managed by Martin Neumann, former manager of a sugar beet refinery in Šurany , then part of Czechoslovakia . Neumann was invited by the British government to oversee the refinement of sugar in Bury St Edmunds and, with his family, immigrated to

1071-706: The Proto-Indo-European root * bhrgh 'fortified elevation', with cognates including Welsh bera 'stack' and Sanskrit bhrant - 'high, elevated building'. The second section of the name refers to Edmund , King of the East Angles , called Edmund the Martyr, who was killed by the Vikings in the year 869. He became venerated as a saint and a martyr, and his shrine made Bury St Edmunds an important place of pilgrimage. The formal name of

1134-574: The Second World War , the USAAF used Rougham Airfield outside the town. On 3 March 1974 a Turkish Airlines DC10 jet Flight 981 crashed near Paris killing all 346 people on board. Among the victims were 17 members of Bury St Edmunds Rugby Football Club , returning from France. Near the abbey gardens stands Britain's first internally illuminated street sign, the Pillar of Salt , which

1197-465: The abbey . The town is associated with Magna Carta . In 1214 the barons of England are believed to have met in the abbey church and sworn to force King John to accept the Charter of Liberties , the document which influenced the creation of Magna Carta, a copy of which was displayed in the town's cathedral during the 2014 celebrations. By various grants from the abbots, the town gradually attained

1260-490: The 1970s. Suffolk County Cricket Club play occasional games at the Victory Ground, which is also the home ground of Bury St Edmunds Cricket Club . The cricket club previously played at Cemetry Road . Bury St Edmunds Rugby Football Club has an extensive history, including the devastating plane crash that killed several members who had attended a 1974 Five Nations Championship match. Eastgate Amateur Boxing club

1323-647: The Confessor made the abbot lord of the franchise. The older monastery was destroyed and, the secular priests having been expelled, a new Benedictine abbey was built. Count Alan Rufus is said to have been interred at Bury St Edmunds Abbey in 1093. In the 12th and 13th centuries the head of the de Hastings family, who held the Lordship of the Manor of Ashill in Norfolk, was hereditary Steward of this abbey. The town

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1386-530: The Latin entry in the books says, to enjoy better health ( mutato cœlo ), and to study medicine. In September 1703 he entered at Leyden University , where he studied under Herman Boerhaave . He proceeded LL.B. at Cambridge in 1710, D.D. in 1717, and he was at the time of his death the senior doctor in divinity of the university. Richard Hurd was curate during 1742-3 of a parish near Norton, where he often saw Macro, and considered him "a very learned and amiable man,

1449-514: The London trade. He preferred to sell to private buyers, and indeed was often loth to part with his "jewels", as he styled his rarities. Having amassed a considerable fortune, Beatniffe retired from his bookselling business a short time before his death, which took place 9 July 1818, age seventy-nine, at Norwich. He was buried in the nave of the Norwich church of St. Peter at Mancroft. Beatniffe married Martha Dinah Hart, who died in 1816, daughter of

1512-582: The Rev. Dr. Cox Macro , of Little Haugh in Suffolk, who died in 1767, after having brought together a rich treasure of early-printed books, old poetry, original letters, and autographs. The library remained unexamined for forty years, when it came into Beatniffe's hands at the commencement of the century for the small sum of £150 or £160. On being sold piecemeal the collection realised nine or ten times as much. William Beloe , who knew him, has described Beatniffe as

1575-512: The Staniforths to Mr. Wilson, a Yorkshire antiquary, who was his nephew; and when the Wilson library was dispersed in 1844 they went to augment the store of Sir Thomas Phillipps at Middle Hill. The Macro property ultimately came to John Patteson , M.P. for Norwich, who disposed of the old masters by auction in 1819, and sold the books and manuscripts for a trifling sum — no more than £150, it

1638-530: The United Kingdom. The actor and writer Stephen Fry is a grandson of Martin Neumann, as recounted in the BBC programme Who Do You Think You Are? The refinery processes beet from 1,300 growers. 660 lorry-loads of beet can be accepted each day when beet is being harvested. Not all the beet can be crystallised immediately, and some is kept in solution in holding tanks until late spring and early summer, when

1701-477: The author author of The Norfolk Tour guide book. Beatniffe was born in 1739 in Louth , Lincolnshire, and was adopted and educated by his uncle, the Rev. Samuel Beatniffe, rector of Gaywood and Bawsey in Norfolk. He was apprenticed to a bookseller at Lynn of the name of Thomas Hollingworth, who was in the habit of taking four apprentices. When we are told that all the four were expected to sleep in one bed, that

1764-498: The author to each successive edition, and most of the places described were personally visited. It is written in a plain manner, and is full of information. Mr. W. Rye says: The numerous editions to which it ran show it had considerable merit, and in its notes and illustrations there is much useful and interesting reading. His biographer tells some characteristic anecdotes of the bookseller's unyielding toryism, of his rebuffs to chaffering customers, and of his unwillingness to supply

1827-437: The cathedral. The town now has seven Anglican churches in six parishes, St Peter's being in the same parish as St Mary's. St James' parish church became St Edmundsbury Cathedral when the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich was formed in 1914. The cathedral was extended with an eastern end in the 1960s. A new Gothic revival cathedral tower was built as part of a Millennium project running from 2000 to 2005. The opening for

1890-485: The corporation. James I in 1606 granted a charter of incorporation with an annual fair in Easter week and a market. James granted further charters in 1608 and 1614, as did Charles II in 1668 and 1684. Parliaments were held in the borough in 1272, 1296 and 1446, but the borough was not represented until 1608, when James I conferred on it the privilege of sending two members. The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 reduced

1953-532: The diocese is "St Edmundsbury", and the town is colloquially known as Bury. An archaeological study in the 2010s on the outskirts of Bury St Edmunds ( Beodericsworth , Bedrichesworth , St Edmund's Bury ) uncovered evidence of Bronze Age activity in the area. The dig also uncovered Roman coins from the first and second centuries. Samuel Lewis, writing in 1848, notes the earlier discovery of Roman antiquities, and as with several other writers connects Bury St Edmunds with Villa Faustini or Villa Faustina , although

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2016-461: The election was held. By 2013 a number of by-elections put Conservatives in control again and in the 2015 election Conservatives won 14 of the 17 vacancies. In 2020 it was announced that the town council would meet in the Guildhall, the historic home of the borough council between 1606 and 1966. Richard Beatniffe Richard Beatniffe (1740–1818) was an English printer, bookseller and

2079-419: The fifth in 1795, with the sixth and last in 1808, "greatly enlarged and improved". This edition was 399 pages, about four times the size of the first. In the advertisement the author states that he had carefully revised every page, "and by the friendly communications of several gentlemen in the county and [his] own observations during the last ten years greatly enlarged" it. Improvements and additions were made by

2142-529: The great register of Bury St Edmunds Abbey , a ledger-book of Glastonbury Abbey , the original manuscript of Edmund Spenser 's A View of the Present State of Irelande all the collections of John Covel , and numerous charters. Many of his manuscripts had belonged to Sir Henry Spelman , others formed part of the library of Bury St Edmunds Abbey, and several of them had been obtained through Hurd. A part of Macro's literary collections were presented by

2205-503: The grounds that everything in the town... belonged by right to St Edmund: therefore, either the Jews should be St Edmund's men or they should be banished from the town." This expulsion predates the Edict of Expulsion by 100 years. In 1198, a fire burned the shrine of St Edmund, leading to the inspection of his corpse by Abbot Samson and the translation of St Edmund's body to a new location in

2268-583: The home town of the London and South East Regional Divorce Unit and the Maintenance Enforcement Business Centre (for issues with maintenance payments outside Greater London). The former processes divorce documents from across London and South East England as one of five centralised units covering the United Kingdom. Both units are based with Bury St Edmunds County Court in Triton House, St Andrews Street North. Bury

2331-606: The infamous 1827 Red Barn murder . The Market Cross , today a community space, is a building restored by Robert Adam in 1780s. Between 1972 and 2018 the Market Cross was an art gallery called "Smiths Row", hosting a programme of changing contemporary art and craft exhibitions and events by British and international artists. The town holds several festivals a year. The largest festival is held in May and includes concerts, plays, dance, and lecturers culminating in fireworks. There

2394-511: The location of this Roman site is also discussed by E. Gillingwater (1804), who notes the lack of evidence for it being here. The town was one of the royal boroughs of the Saxons . Sigebert , king of the East Angles , founded a monastery here about 633, which in 903 became the burial place of King Edmund the Martyr, who was slain by the Danes in 869, and owed most of its early celebrity to

2457-400: The metropolis, he immediately added at least one-third to his price. In 1766 "having engaged proper assistance from London and purchased a large quantity of Mr Caslon's excellent type", Beatniffe opened a printing office in the parish of St Peter Permountergate (Norwich Mercury 21 June 1766). where he was responsible for printing many substantial works. However, in 1795 he took John Payne as

2520-488: The most complete scholar and gentleman united that almost ever I saw." The doctor was "master of most of the modern languages"; and he taught Hurd Italian. There was correspondence between Hurd and the family for many years. Macro had moved into Little Haugh Hall by 1719. It contained many valuable paintings, a few pieces of sculpture, a collection of coins and medals, numerous manuscripts, and a library of books rich in old poetry and other rare works. Peter Tillemans of Antwerp,

2583-590: The now-closed Moreton Hall Preparatory School. Bury St Edmunds Guildhall dates back to the late 12th century. Bury St Edmunds has one of the full-time fire stations run by Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service . Originally located in the Traverse (now the Halifax bank), it moved to Fornham Road in 1953. The Fornham Road site (now Mermaid Close) closed in 1987 and the fire station moved to its current location on Parkway North. Since March 2015, Bury St Edmunds has been

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2646-519: The only daughter and heiress of the Rev. John Cox, rector of Risby , near Bury, and great-granddaughter of Dr Richard Cox , bishop of Ely. She died on 29 April 1743. The son, Cox Macro, was born in 1683, and received his baptismal name from his mother's surname. Cox Macro was educated at Bury grammar school by the Rev. Edward Leeds. He matriculated at Jesus College, Cambridge , but migrated to Christ's College, Cambridge in January 1701-2, in order, as

2709-487: The plant has spare crystallising capacity. The sugar is sold under the Silver Spoon name (the other major British brand, Tate & Lyle , is made from imported sugar cane ). By-products include molassed sugar beet feed for cattle and LimeX70, a soil improver. The factory has its own power station, which powers around 110,000 homes. A smell of burnt starch from the plant is noticeable on some days. The town council

2772-654: The puritan theologian Richard Sibbes , master of St Catherine's Hall in Cambridge , antiquary and politician Simonds d'Ewes , and John Winthrop the Younger , who became governor of Connecticut. The town was the setting for witch trials between 1599 and 1694. The population had reached 12,538 by 1841. A permanent military presence was established in the town with the completion of the Militia Barracks in 1857 and of Gibraltar Barracks in 1878. During

2835-570: The rank of a borough . Henry III in 1235 granted to the abbot two annual fairs, one in December and the other the great St Matthew 's fair, which was abolished by the Fairs Act of 1871 . In 1327, the Great Riot occurred, in which the local populace led an armed revolt against the abbey. The riot destroyed the main gate, and a new, fortified gate was built in its stead. On 11 April 1608

2898-652: The representation to one. The borough of Bury St Edmunds and the surrounding area, like much of East Anglia , being part of the Eastern Association , supported Puritan sentiment during the first half of the 17th century. By 1640, several families had departed for the Massachusetts Bay Colony as part of the wave of emigration that occurred during the Great Migration . Bury's ancient grammar school also educated such notables as

2961-458: The reputed miracles performed at the shrine of the martyr king. The town grew around Bury St Edmunds Abbey , a site of pilgrimage . By 925 the fame of St Edmund had spread far and wide, and the name of the town was changed to St Edmund's Bury . In 942 or 945, King Edmund I had granted to the abbot and convent jurisdiction over the whole town, free from all secular services, and Canute in 1020 freed it from episcopal control. Later, Edward

3024-554: The sheets were changed only once a year, and that the youths were dieted in the most economical manner, it says much for the sturdiness of Beatniffe that he was the only apprentice Hollingworth had for forty years who remained to serve his full-time. The temptations of the hand of his master's daughter, who was deformed in person and unpleasing in manners, together with a share in the business, were not able to retain Beatniffe in Lynn. Upon

3087-445: The termination of his apprenticeship, he went to Norwich, where he became a freeman of Norwich by purchase on 21 September 1764 as a bookbinder. His old master Hollingworth, if harsh, must have been also generous, since he had advanced Beatniffe £500, in 1763 to purchase the stock of the bankrupt Jonathan Gleed, a bookseller of London Lane, in Norwich. Beatniffe became a successful bookseller in Norwich. His knowledge of books, skill as

3150-498: The tower took place in July 2005, and included a brass band concert and fireworks. Parts of the cathedral remain uncompleted, including the cloisters . The tower makes St Edmundsbury the most recently completed Anglican cathedral in the UK, and was constructed using original fabrication techniques by six masons who placed the machine-cut stones individually as they arrived. St Mary's Church

3213-513: The town centre, and Honington (elevation 51 m or 167 ft), about 6 + 1 ⁄ 2  mi (10 km) north. According to Usman Majeed, head of Honington, the latter ceased weather observations in 2003, while Brooms Barn remains operational. Brooms Barn's record maximum temperature stands at 36.7 °C (98.1 °F), recorded in August 2003. The lowest recent temperature was −10.0 °C (14.0 °F) during December 2010. Rainfall

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3276-555: The town have closed over the years, but the town still has a variety of pubs The Angel Hotel is a Georgian building on Angel Hill. Charles Dickens stayed there while giving readings in the Athenaeum , as mentioned in The Pickwick Papers . Angelina Jolie stayed there while filming Tomb Raider . A coaching inn has existed on the site since the 15th century. Greene King , is situated in Bury St Edmunds, as

3339-475: The union previously — she married, on 8 May 1767, William Staniforth of Sheffield, and died without issue on 16 August 1775. Macro left a charitable bequest of £600 to Norton parish, to provide twelve coats for poor men and twelve gowns for poor women. A catalogue of Macro's treasures was compiled in 1766. Among them were drawings by the old masters, which had belonged to Sir James Thornhill , many letters from protestant martyrs, descended to him through Bishop Cox,

3402-676: Was an annual Christmas Fair in the town up until 2019, with food, drink, local crafts and fairground rides available, stretching from the Abbey Gardens to the Arc Shopping Centre. Bury St Edmunds is home to England's oldest Scout group, 1st Bury St Edmunds (Mayors Own) . The town's main football club, Bury Town , is the fourth oldest non-league team in England. They are members of the Isthmian League and have played at Ram Meadow since moving from Kings Road in

3465-661: Was built by National Gallery architect William Wilkins in 1819 and is the sole surviving Regency Theatre in the country. The theatre, owned by the Greene King brewery, is leased to the National Trust for a nominal charge, and underwent restoration between 2005 and 2007. It presents a full programme of performances and is also open for public tours. In August 2023, the Theatre Royal closed suddenly due to fire safety issues. An additional arts venue, The Apex,

3528-608: Was built in 1935. The sign is at the terminus of the A1101 , Great Britain's lowest road which is mostly below sea level. There is a network of tunnels which are evidence of chalk -workings, though there is no evidence of extensive tunnels under the town centre. Some buildings have inter-communicating cellars. Due to their unsafe nature the chalk-workings are not open to the public, although viewing has been granted to individuals. Some have caused subsidence within living memory, for instance at Jacqueline Close. Among noteworthy buildings

3591-668: Was built on a grid pattern by Abbot Baldwin around 1080. It is known for brewing and malting ( Greene King brewery) and for a British Sugar processing factory, where Silver Spoon sugar is produced. The town is the cultural and retail centre for West Suffolk and tourism is a major part of the economy. The name Bury is etymologically connected with borough , which has cognates in other Germanic languages such as German Burg 'fortress, castle' and Bereich '(defined) area' Old Norse borg 'wall, castle'; and Gothic baurg 'city'. They all derive from Proto-Germanic * burgs 'fortress'. This in turn derives from

3654-461: Was built on the site of the former cattle market in 2010. Moyse's Hall Museum is one of the oldest (c. 1180) domestic buildings in East Anglia open to the public. It has collections of fine art, for example Mary Beale , costume, e.g. Charles Frederick Worth , horology , local and social history, including Witchcraft . It holds an original death mask of William Corder who was hanged for

3717-587: Was buried on 9 February in Norton churchyard, in an enclosure between the side of the vestry and a buttress to the church wall. His wife was Mary, daughter of Edward Godfrey, privy purse to Queen Anne. She died on 31 August 1753, and was buried at Norton, leaving one son and one daughter. The former, for some time at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, with Hurd as his tutor, became a soldier, and died abroad during his father's lifetime, whereupon his sister, Mary, became her father's heiress. After his death — for he would not allow

3780-561: Was established in 1981. The club has been headquartered at various locations in and around the town, but are now training in an old World War I gym in Rougham. West Suffolk Swimming Club formed in 1998 from the merger of two local swimming clubs and operates from pools in Bury St Edmunds, Haverhill and Culford. West Suffolk Athletics Club are based at the West Suffolk College sports ground. Local news and television programmes

3843-490: Was for a time the home of a thriving Jewish community, and it is likely, although not certain, that Moyse's Hall belonged to a Jewish merchant. On 18 March 1190, two days after the more well-known massacre of Jews at Clifford Tower in York , the people of Bury St Edmunds massacred 57 Jews. Later that year, Abbot Samson successfully petitioned King Richard I for permission to evict the town's remaining Jewish inhabitants "on

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3906-463: Was formed in 2003. The election on 3 May 2007 was won by the "Abolish Bury Town Council" party. The party lost its majority following a by-election in June 2007 and, to date, the town council is still in existence. In March 2008 a further by-election put Conservatives in control but in the council election of May 2011 the lack of Conservative and other parties' candidates resulted a Labour majority before

3969-544: Was sacked by the townspeople in the 14th century and then largely destroyed during the 16th century with the Dissolution of the Monasteries , but the town remained prosperous throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, only falling into relative decline with the Industrial Revolution . Until the building of St John's in 1840, the town had just two parishes, St James's and St Mary's. The former has now become

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