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A92343 August, 17. 1642. A relation from Belfast in Ireland, sent to a friend, mentioning some late successe against the rebels, by Colonell Clotworthy, about Mount-joy, in the county of Tyrone, with a letter of the deputy-lieutenants of Devonshire, to the gentlemen of Cornwall. 1642 (1642) Wing R778; Thomason E112_23; ESTC R20676 2,313 9

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