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A27251
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A new light-house at Milford for the great pilots of England, for their safety, as well to avoyd the unremovable rock, Eliot, from their doore here, as to beware of the bishop and his clerks neer their harbour there.
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Beech, William.
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1650
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Wing B1681; ESTC R28901
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