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B00559 A treatise declaring, and confirming against all obiections the just title and right of the moste excellent and worthie prince, Iames the sixt, King of Scotland, to the succession of the croun of England. Whereunto is added a discourse shewing how necessarie it is for the realme of England, that he be in due time acknowledged and admitted to the succession of the kingdome. Philodikaios, Irenicus. 1599 (1599) STC 19881.5; ESTC S94721 21,845 46

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