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A36268 Tho. Dangerfield's answer to a certain scandalous lying pamphlet entituled, Malice defeated, or, The deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier together with some particular remarks made from her own words, an acknowledgment of matter of fact, and a short compendium of the principal transactions of her life and conversation / all which are wrote by the hand of Tho. Dangerfield ... Dangerfield, Thomas, 1650?-1685. 1680 (1680) Wing D183; ESTC R8411 21,668 21

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