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fire_n	day_n	great_a	see_v	3,598	5	3.4795	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25997	The account given by Sir John Ashby, Vice-Admiral, and Reere-Admiral Rooke to the Lords Commissioners of the engagement at sea between the English, Dutch, and French fleets, June the 30th, 1690 with a journal of the fleet since their departure from St. Hellens to their return to the Buoy-in-the-Nore, and other material passages relating to the said engagement.	Ashby, John, Sir, d. 1693.; Rooke, George, Sir, 1650-1709.	1691 (1691)	Wing A3937; ESTC R18188	18,062	36

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