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A66831 Loyalty amongst rebels the true royalist, or, Hushay the Archite, a happy counsellour in King David's greatest danger / written by Edward Wolley ... Wolley, Edward, 1603-1684. 1662 (1662) Wing W3266; ESTC R31822 59,179 224

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