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Updated: May 29, 2025
Jephson is rather bitten by a taste for all that "teleopathy" business, as the old Malaprop calls it. On the whole, I shall say no more to him, but let him play the game, if he goes to Walton, off his own bat. Presently Merton received a note from Jephson dated 'The Perch, Walton-on- Dove. Jephson expressed his gratitude; the place suited his purpose very well.
On his death, apparently in 1627, he was found to have left bequests to almost every place in Surrey, according to the manners of the inhabitants to Mitcham a horsewhip, to Walton-on- Thames a bridle, to Betchworth, Leatherhead, and many more, endowments which produce from 50 to 75 pounds a year, and to Cobham a sum to be spent annually in woollen cloth of a uniform colour, bearing Smith's badge, to be given away in church to the poor and impotent, as the following tablet still records:
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