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B04939
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To the memory of the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Napier who died in France, Anno Dom. 1686. A funeral elegie. / N. Paterson.
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Paterson, Ninian, d. 1688.
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1686
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Wing P704; ESTC R181529
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