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A41909 Great news from Derby-shire being a full and true relation of the discovery of above thirty priests living and residing in and about Halam in the said county : together with an account of the taking of one Busby, a priest, and two women, notorious papists, by Justice Gilbert, a worthy and active prosecutor of priests and Jesuits, and how they had contrived to charge Mr. Gilbert with felony, which by the confession of Dudley, one of their own party, by the providence of God was fully detected and discovered and they committed to the county-gaol where they now remain / written in a letter from a worthy divine in that county, to a friend in London. 1681 (1681) Wing G1717; ESTC R36558 1,778 4

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