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A90224 To the Right Honourable, the knights, citizens, and burgesses, the Parliament of England, assembled at Westminster, the humble appeale and petition of Mary Overton, prisoner in Bridewell:. Overton, Mary. 1647 (1647) Wing O617; Thomason E381_10; ESTC R201411 9,107 15

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