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A36630 His Majesties declaration defended in a letter to a friend being an answer to a seditious pamphlet, called A letter from a person of quality to his friend : concerning the kings late declaration touching the reasons which moved him to dissolve the two last parliaments at Westminster and Oxford. Dryden, John, 1631-1700. 1681 (1681) Wing D2286; ESTC R180 23,921 20

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