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A43394 Certaine conceptions, or, Considerations of Sir Percy Herbert, upon the strange change of peoples dispositions and actions in these latter times directed to his sonne. Herbert, Percy, Sir. 1650 (1650) Wing H1524A; ESTC R13695 141,161 274

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