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A56005 The prophecies, and predictions, for London's deliverance with the conjunction, effects, and influences of the superiour planets, the causes thereof, and the probability of the happy abatement of the present dismal pestilence, (according to natural causes the ti[m]e when, and the we[e]ks and moneths fore-told, when the city of Iondon [sic] wil[l] be freed and acquitted from the violent raging of this destructive enemy. The appearance of which great pest was predicted by the learned Mr. Lilly. Mr. Booker, Mr. Gadbury, Mr. Trigge, and Mr. Andrews. 1665 (1665) Wing P3674; ESTC R220550 3,953 8

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