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A30337 A discourse on the memory of that rare and truely virtuous person Sir Robert Fletcher of Saltoun who died the 13 of January last, in the thirty ninth year of his age / written by a gentleman of his acquaintance. Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. 1665 (1665) Wing B5778; ESTC R37517 24,758 193

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