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A28312 A true and exact relation of the chiefe passages in Ireland, since the first rising of the rebels sent by an alderman of Dublin to his sonne, now resident in London, dated 14 of January, 1641, as also a letter of the rebels, subscribed with divers of their hands, written to the Lady Offalia, mother to the Lord Digby, to deliver up her castle of Geshel, she with the Lord Digby's children and others being therein, with her resolute and modest answer thereunto. Digby, Lettice, Lady, 1588?-1658.; Bladen, W. (William) 1642 (1642) Wing B3107; ESTC R15503 4,304 7

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