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William Molyneux, the Fourteen-Year Old Son of Sir Thomas Molyneux, Is Killed
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William Molyneux, the fourteen-year-old son of Sir Thomas Molyneux, is tragically killed when a leaden image falls on him in a garden near Dublin. The incident is recorded as an unusual and sorrowful event in the life of the prominent Molyneux family in early 18th-century Ireland.