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B09499 By His Excellency a proclamation. Whereas His Majesty hath been graciously pleased, by his royal letter, bearing date the sixteenth day of October last past, to signifie that he hath received undoubted advice that a great and sudden invasion from Holland, with an armed force of forreigners and strangers, will speedily be made in an hostile manner upon His Majesty's kingdom of England ... Territory and Dominion of New-England. President (1686-1689 : Andros); Andros, Edmund, Sir, 1637-1714. 1689 (1689) Wing M990AB; ESTC W8639 1,473 2

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