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"COPGROVE, (given as "COPGRAVE") a parish in the West Riding of Yorkshire, bet. Knaresborough and Boroughbridge, is noted for an epitaph on John Wincupp; which shews, that he was rector of its Ch. 54 years (during which he boarded and taught many of the gentry;) that he never was plaintiff, nor defendant; and lived 52 years with his wife, by whom he had 6 children, out of which, not one died in all that time; and that he was the first of his family who departed this life, in 1637, aetat. 86."
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