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A61814 Breviarium chronologicum being a treatise describing the terms and most celebrated characters, periods and epocha's us'd in chronology, by which that useful science may easily be attained to / writ in Latin by Gyles Strauchius ... ; and now done into English from the third edition, with additions. Strauch, Aegidius, 1632-1682.; Sault, Richard, d. 1702. 1699 (1699) Wing S5941; ESTC R39107 274,730 510

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