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B03139 An elegy in commemoration of the honourable Lieutenant-General Talmash, who departed this life at Plymouth on the 12th. of June, 1694. of a mortal wound received in his thigh, in the glorious enterprize in landing the English forces at Camerett-Bay in France, &c. 1694 (1694) Wing E349B; ESTC R171914 1,376 1

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