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A90076 News from Germanie. Wherein is also related, how the emperours brother Arch-duke Leopold-William hath proceeded according to martiall law against those regiments that ran away in the late battell fought betwixt him and the Swedish generall Torstensohn, near Leipzigk the 23. of October last, 1642. 1642 (1642) Wing N959; Thomason E129_27; ESTC R16791 3,030 8

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