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A62419 A collection of 86 loyal poems all of them written upon the two late plots viz, the horrid Salamanca plot in 1687, and the present fanatical conspiracy in 1683 : to which is added, advice to the carver : written on the death of the late L. Stafford : with several poems on their majesties coronation, never before published / collected by N.T. Thompson, Nathaniel, d. 1687. 1685 (1685) Wing T1005; ESTC R19822 155,892 404

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