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cause_n good_a lord_n people_n 3,261 5 4.5539 4 true
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A31237 To all the Royalists that suffered for His Majesty, and to the rest of the good people of England the humble apology of the English Catholicks. Castlemaine, Roger Palmer, Earl of, 1634-1705. 1666 (1666) Wing C1249; ESTC R1297 10,627 16

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