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A53018 A New-years gift to impostors: or, The manifest of William the Third King of England, Scotland, and Ireland delivered and dispersed at the French Court, &c. as an overture to the General Peace, proposed about the later end of the year 1693. and concluded in 1697. Faithfully done out of the original into English, and now published by a true friend to truth and justice, and consequently to his King and country. 1697 (1697) Wing N818; ESTC R221381 7,733 4

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