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A35259 Wonderful prodigies of judgment and mercy discovered in above three hundred memorable histories ... / impartially collected from antient and modern authors of undoubted authority and credit, and imbellished with divers curious pictures of several remarkable passages therein by R.B., author of the History of the wars of England, and the Remarks of London &c. R. B., 1632?-1725? 1682 (1682) Wing C7361; ESTC R34850 173,565 242

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