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A18428 A most true report of the myraculous mouing and sinking of a plot of ground, about nine acres, at VVestram in Kent, which began the 18. of December, and so continued till the 29. of the same moneth. 1596 ... Chapman, John, fl. 1596. 1596 (1596) STC 4997; ESTC S104954 7,799 16

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