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A66771 The prisoners plea, humbly offered in a remonstrance with a petition annexed, to the commons of England in Parliament assembled / by George Wither ; falsely charged to have composed a lybel against the said commons, and therefore now prisoner in Nemgate ; it combineth also many interjections not to be defined, as Wither, George, 1588-1667. 1661 (1661) Wing W3180; ESTC R12459 31,803 62

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