A few years later, the agrarian radical William Cobbett dug up and shipped his bones back to England.9L0 509 The plan was to give Paine a heroic reburial on his native soil, but the bones were still among Cobbett's effects when he died over twenty years later.
There is no confirmed story about what happened to them after that, although down the years various people have claimed to own parts of Paine's remains, such as his skull and right hand 9L0 402 Thomas Paine developed his natural justice beliefs in childhood, while listening to a mob jeering and attacking the town folk being punished in the Thetford stocks.[citation needed] Also, he might have been influenced by his Quaker father.
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