Selected quad for the lemma: death_n
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Cromwell's bloody slaughter-house, or, his damnable designes laid and practised by him and his negro's, in contriving the murther of His sacred Majesty King Charles I, discovered by a person of honor.
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Gauden, John, 1605-1662.
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