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A40792 The history of the most unfortunate prince King Edward II with choice political observations on him and his unhappy favourites, Gaveston & Spencer, containing several rare passages of those times, not found in other historians / found among the papers of, and (supposed to be) writ by Henry Viscount Faulkland ... Falkland, Henry Cary, Viscount, d. 1633.; Fannant, Edward. 1680 (1680) Wing F314; ESTC R8909 44,640 88

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