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A76387 The remonstrance, or manifest of Sr Thomas Bendysh, Baronet, sent ambassador from King Charles of blessed memory, to the Grand Seignior in Constantinople, anno, 1647 To inform the world, and to remember the governour and Company of Merchants trading into the Levant Seas, of the services he hath done them, and this nation, there; which by their carriage towards him, many of them seem to have forgotten. Bendish, Thomas, Sir, d. ca. 1674. 1665 (1665) Wing B1867aA; ESTC R232482 6,532 15

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