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in Clive, Shropshire
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she terrorized him and baggarred him to death
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he inherits a 15 year lawsuit from the Countess' first husbands will
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King James II, an admirer of The Plain Dealer, settled Wycherley’s debts and released him from prison four years later, in 1686. James even granted Wycherley a pension of £200 per year
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this pension ceased in 1688 when James fled England and William III acceded. Thereafter Wycherley resigned himself to living in a small way, dividing his time between London and Shropshire
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The teenage Pope, in particular, became a friend and even revised some of Wycherley’s verse; the published volume, which appeared in 1704, was not well received.
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Illness, depression, and financial hardship beset Wycherley in his final years, and the capstone of these afflictions was a very sordid transaction that led to his remarriage in 1715 at age 74. A cousin of Wycherley’s, one Captain Thomas Shrimpton, suggested that Wycherley might discharge his debts by marrying a young woman named Elizabeth Jackson and, with her, a considerable dowry
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