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A01932 Encouragements. For such as shall have intention to bee vnder-takers in the new plantation of Cape Briton, now New Galloway in America, by mee LochinvarĀ· Gordon, Robert, Sir, d. 1627? 1625 (1625) STC 12069; ESTC S105760 13,699 31

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