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A65260
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Memoires of the family of Stuarts and the remarkable providences of God towards them in an historical account of the lives of those His Majesty's progenitors of that name that were kings of Scotland.
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Watson, John, b. 1597?
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1683
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Wing W1081; ESTC R35236
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