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Taunton

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Taun·ton  (tôntn, tn-)
A city of southeast Massachusetts on the Taunton River north of Fall River. Settled in the 1630s, it is a metalworking and manufacturing center. Population: 56,100.
Taunton [ˈtɔːntən]
n
(Placename) a market town in SW England, administrative centre of Somerset: scene of Judge Jeffreys' ``Bloody Assize'' (1685) after the Battle of Sedgemoor. Pop.: 55 855 (1991)


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Having at length gone through the school at Taunton, I was thence removed to Exeter College in Oxford, where I remained four years; at the end of which an accident took me off entirely from my studies; and hence, I may truly date the rise of all which happened to me afterwards in life.
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