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A96783 Vaticinium causuale. A rapture occasioned by the late miraculous deliverance of His Highnesse the Lord Protector, from a desperate danger. With, a noverint universi, in the close. / By Geo: Wither, Esq; Wither, George, 1588-1667. 1654 (1654) Wing W3205; Thomason E813_14; ESTC R204104 6,619 16

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