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A08306 Speculum Britanniae. The first parte an historicall, & chorographicall discription of Middlesex. Wherin are also alphabeticallie sett downe, the names of the cyties, townes, parishes hamletes, howses of name &c. W.th direction spedelie to finde anie place desired in the mappe & the distance betwene place and place without compasses. Cum priuilegio. By the trauaile and vew of Iohn Norden. Anno 1593; Speculum Britanniae. Part 1 Norden, John, 1548-1625?; Keere, Pieter van den, ca. 1571-ca. 1624, engraver. 1593 (1593) STC 18635; ESTC S113229 40,877 140

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