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A43095 Killing is murder, and no murder, or, An exercitation concerning a scurrilous pamphlet of one William Allen, a Jesuitical impostor, intituled, Killing no murder wherein His Highness honor is vindicated and Allens impostors discovered : and wherein the true grounds of government are stated, and his fallacious principles detected and rejected : as also his calumnious scoffs are perstringed and cramb'd down his own throat / by Mich. Hawke, of the Middle-Temple, Gentl. Hawke, Michael. 1657 (1657) Wing H1171; ESTC R12455 71,020 66

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