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A84248 Exceeding joyfull newes from Plymouth and Devonshire. Sent in a letter from the deputy lieutenants to the House of Commons, Decemb. 8. wherein is declated [sic] the full proceedings of the cavaleirs against the Parliament forces in the said county, from the 4. of Decemb. to the 9. 1642. Also a full relation of the besieging of Plymouth, by the Lord Grandison, the L. Digby, and Commissarie Wilmot, with 9000. men, and how they were beaten off by the Parliament forces that were within the town, killing about 850. the Lord Digbie being shot through the shoulder, with a musquet bullet. 1642 (1642) Wing E3752; Thomason E129_30; ESTC R16646 2,029 8

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