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A23896 An Abstract of the consultations and debates, between the French king and his council, concerning the new coyn and coynage that is intended to be made in England. Wherein is contain'd, the political designs, and great hopes, the French king and his council have to ruin the English nation, in divesting and draining them of their new coyn as soon as coyn'd. / Privately sent by a friend of the confederates from the French court, to his brother at Brussels, &c. Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.; France. Conseil d'Etat. 1695 (1695) Wing A130; ESTC R5977 8,286 17

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