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A85446 The great case of transplantation in Ireland discussed; or Certain considerations, wherein the many great inconveniences in the transplanting the natives of Ireland generally out of the three provinces of Leinster, Ulster, and Munster, into the province of Connaught, are shewn. / Humbly tendered to every individual member of Parliament by a well wisher to the good of the common-wealth of England. Gookin, Vincent, 1616?-1659. 1655 (1655) Wing G1273; Thomason E234_6; ESTC R6361 17,246 34

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