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A55052 An impartial account of the state of New England, or, The late government there, vindicated in answer to the Declaration which the faction set forth when they overturned that government : with a relation of the horrible usage they treated the governour with , and his Council, and all that had His Majesty's commission : in a letter to the clergy there / by John Palmer. Palmer, John, 1650-1700? 1690 (1690) Wing P246; ESTC R37740 24,245 41

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