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A40839 The famous and renowned history of the memorable, but unhappy hunting on Chevy-Chase, by the river Tweed in Scotland together with the great and mortal battles fought there, between the Lord Piercy, Earl of Northumberland, and his fifteen hundred English archers, and Earl Dowglas, with twenty hundred Scottish spears,in which both, with most of their men, were slain. 1690 (1690) Wing F359A; ESTC R222646 11,615 24

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