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A23648 The cry of innocent blood, sounding to the ear of each member in Parliament being a short relation of the barbarous cruelties inflicted lately upon the peaceable people of God called Quakers, at their meeting in Horsly-down, in the county of Surrey : also some plain-dealing with the persecuting rulers / by C.H. Allen, Robert, fl. 1670.; Harriss, Charles. 1670 (1670) Wing A1045B; ESTC R9944 4,789 8

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