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A54680 The ancient, legal, fundamental, and necessary rights of courts of justice, in their writs of capias, arrests, and process of outlary and the illegality ... which may arrive to the people of England, by the proposals tendred to His Majesty and the High Court of Parliament for the abolishing of that old and better way and method of justice, and the establishing of a new, by peremptory summons and citations in actions of debt / by Fabian Philipps, Esq. Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690. 1676 (1676) Wing P2002; ESTC R3717 157,858 399

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