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A61437 Popish policies and practices represented in the histories of the Parisian massacre, gun-powder treason, conspiracies against Queen Elizabeth, and persecutions of the Protestants in France / translated and collected out of the famous Thuanus and other writers of the Roman communion ; with a discourse concerning the original of the powder-plot. Stephens, Edward, d. 1706. 1674 (1674) Wing S5435; ESTC R34603 233,712 312

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