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A28568 Three charges delivered at the General Quarter Sessions holden at Ipswich, for the county of Suffolk, in the years 1691, 1692 to which is added the author's vindication for the calumnies and mistakes cast on him on account of his geographical dictionary / by Edmund Bohun ... Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699. 1693 (1693) Wing B3462; ESTC R6022 15,248 34

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