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An elegy on the lamented death of the most illustrious Princess, Anne Dutchess of York, &c. Who departed this life (after a long indisposition of body) upon Friday the thirty first of March, 1671.
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1671
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Wing E418; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.3[168]; ESTC R36136
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