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A69468 England's confusion, or, A true and impartial relation of the late traverses of state in England with the counsels leading thereunto : together with a description of the present power ruling there by the name of a Parliament, under the mask of The good old cause / written by one of the few English men that are left in England ... Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686. 1659 (1659) Wing A3168A; ESTC R59 19,125 24

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