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A61726 The two last speeches of Thomas Wentworth, late Earle of Strafford, and deputy of Ireland the one in the Tower, the other on the scaffold on Tower-Hill, May the 12th, 1641. Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641. 1641 (1641) Wing S5800; ESTC R9625 6,309 11

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