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A40544 A Full and impartial account of all the secret consults, negotiations, stratagems, and intriegues of the Romish party in Ireland, from 1660, to this present year 1689, for the settlement of popery in that kingdom 1689 (1689) Wing F2282; ESTC R493 82,015 159

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