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A91299 Three seasonable quæres, proposed to all those cities, counties and boroughs, whose respective citizens, knights and burgesses have been forcibly excluded, uniustly eiected, and disabled to sit in the Commons house, by those now acting at Westminster. Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1660 (1660) Wing P4105; Thomason 669.f.23[3]; ESTC R211480 2,794 1

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