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A31229 An account of the present war between the Venetians & Turk with the state of Candie (in a letter to the king, from Venice) / by the Earl of Castlemaine. Castlemaine, Roger Palmer, Earl of, 1634-1705. 1666 (1666) Wing C1239; ESTC R7289 17,121 117

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