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    1. [YORKSHIRE] Death of Harry ROWE ( 1800 )
    2. >From Jackson's Oxford Journal ( Oxford, England ) Saturday, October 11, 1800; Issue 2476. DIED. - In York, Harry ROWE . This well known character was born at York in the year 1726. He was a trumpeter to the Duke of Kingston's Light Horse at the battle of Culloden, in the year 1746; and attended the High Sheriffs of Yorkshire as trumpeter at the assizes upwards of 46 years. He was the master of a puppet show, and for many successive years opened his little theatre in that city during the summer seasons, and attended his artificial commedians to various other parts of the kingdom, during the course of the winter. In the early part of his life he distinguished himself by his filial affection in the support of his aged parents through these various means; and at length ( shewing the vanity and uncertainty of all sublunary greatness, of " Pride, Pomp," and even, "the circumstance of glorious War ! " ) bowed down by age, infirmity, and sickness, he died in the Poor House.

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