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A54689 The mistaken recompense, or, The great damage and very many mischiefs and inconveniences which will inevitably happen to the King and his people by the taking away of the King's præemption and pourveyance or compositions for them by Fabian Phillipps, Esquire. Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690. 1664 (1664) Wing P2011; ESTC R36674 82,806 136

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