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A63745 A true representation to the King and people of England how matters were carried on all along in Ireland by the late King James in favor of the Irish papists there from his accession to the crown, to the tenth of April, 1689 / by an impartial eye-witness. Impartial eye-witness. 1689 (1689) Wing T3098; ESTC R24644 12,268 21

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