In 1808 a fire broke out in his house in Chancery Lane and destroyed his library, mainly of legal works.
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He died, unmarried, on 29 October 1822 at his house in Boswell Court, Lincoln's Inn Fields, and was buried on 5 November in the benchers' vault in the Temple church.
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