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A95420
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Tvvo epitaphs, occasioned by the death of Sr Charles Lucas, and Sr George Lisle, basely assassinated at Colchester.
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Philanactos, Demophilus.
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1648
(1648)
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Wing T3440; Thomason E464_32; ESTC R203844
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