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A27254 The triumph-royal containing a short account of the most remarkable battels, sieges, sea-fights, treaties, and famous atchievements [sic] of the princes of the House of Nassau &c. describ'd in the triumphal arches, piramids, pictures, inscriptions, and devices erected at the Hague in Honour of William III, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland ... Beek, J., fl. 1691-1702. 1692 (1692) Wing B1686; ESTC R32563 25,299 179

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