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A60213 The fryer, or, An historical treatise wherein the idle lives, vitiousness, malice, folly, and cruelty of the fryers is described : in two parts, tragical and comical : collected out of sundry authors, and several languages, and caused to be translated into English / by James Salgado ... Salgado, James, fl. 1680. 1680 (1680) Wing S376; ESTC R16369 87,870 357

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