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A42295 A guide to juries setting forth their antiquity, power and duty from the Common-law and statutes : with a table / by a person of quality ; also a letter, to the author, upon the same subject. Person of quality.; Maynard, John, Sir, 1602-1690. 1699 (1699) Wing G2186; ESTC R10120 53,071 146

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