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A38872 An exact account of the trials of the several persons arraigned at the Sessions-house in the Old-Bailey for London & Middlesex beginning on Wednesday, Decemb. 11, 1678 and ending the 12th of the same month. 1678 (1678) Wing E3590; ESTC R3294 27,412 39

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