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A28909 A poem humbly presented to His Most Excellent Majesty King William the Third upon his most miraculuous and happy preservation from that barbarous Jacobitish conspiracy to assassinate His Royal Person, February anno 1695 / by R.B. Bovet, Richard, b. ca. 1641. 1696 (1696) Wing B3865; ESTC R26546 3,058 14

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