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A42683
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Flagellum Mercurii anti-Ducalis, or, The author of the dis-ingenuous Touch of the times brought to the whipping-post to prevent his coming to the gallows
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Gibbon, John, 1629-1718.
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1679
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Wing G649A; ESTC R30406
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