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Chatterton's access to a chest in his parish church which contained historical documents enabled him to obtain scraps of ancient parchment.
In August 1770, Chatterton committed suicide by swallowing poison and was dead by the age of seventeen.
Chatterton had his supporters, however, and it was not until the end of the nineteenth century that the controversy over Chatterton ended and there was general acceptance that he was the true author of the Rowley poems and the fifteenth-century Bristol monk was merely his invention.