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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "Attachiamenta bonorum". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences . Vol. 1 (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al. p. 170.
