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A55786 Fortvnes lottery, or, A book of news worth the hearing containing many pretty passages concerning the times, which will prove to be delightfull to the readers, pleasant to the hearer, comfortable to the buyer, profitable to the seller, and hurtfull to no man : whereunto is added a most excellent song, shewing how a noble ship of Bristoll, called the Angel Gabriell, fought against three of Spains great ships and overmastered them all, to the honour and credit of England / written by Laurence Paice [i.e. Laurence Price] L. P. (Laurence Price), fl. 1625-1680? 1657 (1657) Wing P3365A; ESTC R36689 4,926 18

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