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A54661 A true account of the captivity of Thomas Phelps at Machaness in Barbary and of his strange escape in company of Edmund Baxter and others, as also of the burning two of the greatest pirat-ships belonging to that kingdom in the River of Mamora upon the thirteenth day of June 1685 / by Thomas Phelps. Phelps, Thomas. 1685 (1685) Wing P1982; ESTC R25583 19,445 34

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