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A65818 Miscellaneous poems with some remarks on the death of King Charles the II, and the happy succession of King James the II, in a poem to the magistracy of England / by John Whitehall. Whitehall, John, fl. 1679-1685. 1685 (1685) Wing W1867; ESTC R24550 8,611 34

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