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A26368 The history of the late conspiracy against the king and the nation with a particular account of the Lancashire Plot, and all the other attempts and machinations of the disaffected party since His Majesty's accession to the throne / extracted out of the original informations of the witnesses and other authentick papers.; Histoire de la dernière conspiration d'Angleterre. English Abbadie, Jacques, 1654-1727. 1696 (1696) Wing A52; ESTC R14960 75,108 198

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