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A33346 A true and full narrative of those two never to be forgotten deliverances one from the Spanish Invasion in 88, the other from the hellish Powder Plot, November 5, 1605 : whereunto is added the like narrative of that signal judgment of God upon the papists, by the fall of the House in Black-Friers, London, upon their fifth of November, 1623 / collected for the information and benefit of each family, by Sam. Clark ...; England's remembrancer Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.; Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682. Gun-powder treason. 1671 (1671) Wing C4559; ESTC R15231 43,495 131

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