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A64521 Seasonable thoughts in sad times being some reflections on the warre, the pestilence, and the burning of London, considered in the calamity, cause, cure / by Joh. Tabor. Tabor, John. 1667 (1667) Wing T93; ESTC R15193 46,591 114

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