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A51324 The historie of the pitifull life, and unfortunate death of Edward the Fifth, and the then Duke of Yorke, his brother with the troublesome and tyrannical government of usurping Richard the Third, and his miserable end / written by the Right Honorable Sir Thomas Moore ... More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535. 1641 (1641) Wing M2688; ESTC R5586 127,018 478

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