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A46057 The illustrious lovers, or, Princely adventures in the courts of England and France containing sundry transactions relating to love intrigues, noble enterprises, and gallantry : being an historical account of the famous loves of Mary sometimes Queen of France, daughter to Henry the 7th, and Charles Brandon the renown'd Duke of Suffolk : discovering the glory and grandeur of both nations / written original in French, and now done into English.; Princesse d'Angleterre. English Préchac, Jean de, 1647?-1720. 1686 (1686) Wing I51; ESTC R14056 75,386 260

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