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A80190 Colonell Rainsborowes ghost or, a true relation of the manner of his death, who was murthered in his bed-chamber at Doncaster, by three of Pontefract souldiers who pretended that they had letters from Leiutenant Generall Cromwell, to deliver unto him. To the tune of, My bleeding heart with griefe and care. 1648 (1648) Wing C5412; Thomason 669.f.13[46]; ESTC R211071 1,510 2

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