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A40459 The French intrigues discovered with the methods and arts to retrench the potency of France by land and sea and to confine that monarch within his antient dominions and territories : humbly submitted to the consideration of the princes and states of Europe, especially of England / written in a letter from a person of quality abroad to his corrsepondent here. Person of quality abroad. 1681 (1681) Wing F2185; ESTC R9404 35,025 34

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