Selected quad for the lemma: book_n
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A22326
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By the King a proclamation against seditious, popish, and puritanicall bookes and pamphlets.
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England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.
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1624
(1624)
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STC 8736; ESTC S122817
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954
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