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A80514 A copy of a petition, commended to the peace-making association in the west, by Colonell Blake, and Colonell Pyne, to be subscribed and presented by them to Sir Thomas Fairfax. Instead of a subscription, they returned this brief and moderate answer. Also a new oath now injoyned by ordinance of both houses, directly contrary to the oath of allegiance, and their own protestation, at the beginning of this Parliament. Pyne, Colonel.; Blake, Colonel.; Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671. 1645 (1645) Wing C6186; Thomason E300_13; ESTC R200257 2,416 10

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