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A79077 A Royall message from the Kings Most Excellent Majestie to the honourable Houses of Parliament. VVith the answer of the House of Commons concerning the said message. Likewise the true relation of a bloody conspiracy by the papists in Cheshire. Jntended for the destruction of the whole countrey. Invented by the trecherous Lord Choomes and Henry Starky his steward. Also the relation of a bloody skirmish betweene the traine band of Chester and the conspirators, with the number of those that were slaine, likewise the confession of the said Henry Starkey being grievously wounded in the said skirmish. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Starkey, Henry, Steward.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. 1641 (1641) Wing C2765; Thomason E178_9; ESTC R18956 2,394 9

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