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A82069 A declaration and vindication of the loyal-hearted nobility, gentry, and others of the county of Kent, and the City of Canterbury, that they had no hand in the murther of our King 1660 (1660) Wing D560; Thomason 669.f.25[19]; ESTC R211940 2,577 1

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