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A75503 Apology for Mr. Walker fully vindicated in a conflict with the author of the Reflections on the Apology. The Reflector's intellectual endowments, learning, and morals display'd. This paper, having waited above three months for the true narrative of the siege of Derry, is now publisht, chiefly, for the diversion of such as have read the Apology. 1690 (1690) Wing A3545A; ESTC R223512 27,810 15

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