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A58949 A seasonable warning to the Commons of England discovering to them their present danger, and the only means of escaping it, to be by a prudent choice of old English spirits, to serve their kind and countrey in the approaching Parliament. 1679 (1679) Wing S2248; ESTC R22124 6,722 4

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