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A07541 A nights search· Discovering the nature and condition of all sorts of night-walkers; with their associates. As also, the life and death of many of them. Together with divers fearfull and strange accidents, occasioned by such ill livers. Digested into a poeme by Humphry Mill.; Nights search. Part 1. Mill, Humphrey, fl. 1646. 1640 (1640) STC 17921; ESTC S112683 172,120 346

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