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A26768 The lives, actions, and execution of the prime actors, and principall contrivers of that horrid murder of our late pious and sacred soveraigne, King Charles the First ... with severall remarkable passages in the lives of others, their assistants, who died before they could be brought to justice / by George Bate, an observer of those transactions.; Elenchus motuum nuperorum in Anglia. English Bate, George, 1608-1669. 1661 (1661) Wing B1084; ESTC R5539 37,635 156

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