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A48109 A letter in answer to a friend, upon notice of a book entituled, A short view of the late troubles in England wherein in the VIIIth chapter the occasion of the execrable Irish rebellion XLI is egregiously mistaken. 1681 (1681) Wing L1555; ESTC R3008 5,323 4

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