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A63055 The traytors rewarded, or, The execution and confession of Edward Fitz Harris and Oliver Plunket, two notorious traytors, who were drawn to Tyburn on sledges, and there executed on the first of this instant July, 1681 for contriving, and trayterously carrying on the late hellish plot, by not only devising to destroy the life of his Majesty, but to deliver up these kingdoms to a forreign power, &c. 1681 (1681) Wing T2026A; ESTC R5540 3,108 4

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