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 UK London British Library Manuscripts collection Add. MSS 32329, f. 1 1 page 65 mm x 160 mm

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 Correspondence of Thomas Gray, 3 vols. Ed. by the late Paget Toynbee and Leonard Whibley, with corrections and additions by H. W. Starr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971 [1st ed. 1935], letter no. 491*, vol. iii, 1055-1056 http://www.e-enlightenment.com/search/letters/print/?printref_sourceedition=graythOU0084&printref_docnumber=491* Gray and his Friends: Letters and Relics, in great part hitherto unpublished. Ed. by Duncan C. Tovey. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1890, section IV, 190 https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/ToD_1890/1/190 Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 Cambridge, United Kingdom Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811

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 English Farmer, Richard, 1735-1797 Mason, William, 1724-1797 Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811 Meaux, Abbey of

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P: 339, & 340. The Abbot of Mesx

Look in a Map of the East-riding of Yorkshire, & you will see that at a few miles distance North of Lekenfield lies Watton; to the South lies Beverley (the usual Burying-Place of the Percies); & to the S: East the Abbey of Meaux, of which there are still some remains visible: the name is pronounced Meuss. (Mr Mason dictates this note)

Mr Percy's note therefore is wrong.