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A95520 The answer to the rattle-heads concerning their fictionate resolution of the Round-Heads. Wherein is explained euerie particular therein contained against them, with many godly counsels to Doctor Little-wit: the composer of their former scurrulous and illeterate pamphlet. Taylor, John, 1580-1653, attributed name. 1642 (1642) Wing T428; Thomason E132_30; ESTC R19036 2,262 8

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