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A10589 A relation of all matters passed especially in France and the Low-Countries, touching the causes of the warre now in Cleueland. Together with such occurrences of note as have happened in Spaine, Italie, England, Germany, Hungarie and Transyluania, since March last to this present, 1614. Translated according to the originall of Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus. Isselt, Michael von, d. 1597.; Booth, Robert, d. 1657. 1614 (1614) STC 20862; ESTC S104590 34,365 50

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