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A62982 A Tory plot, or, The discovery of a design carried on by our late addressers and abhorrers, to alter the constitution of the government and to betray the Protestant religion by Philanax Misopappas. Misopapas. 1682 (1682) Wing T1946; ESTC R6210 24,686 46

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