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A16601
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The battailes of Crescey, and Poictiers vnder the leading of King Edward the Third of that name; and his sonne Edward Prince of Wales, named the Blacke. By Charles Allen, sometime of Sidney Colledge in Cambridge.
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Aleyn, Charles, d. 1640.
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1631
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STC 351; ESTC S100138
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