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A48422 The life of William Fuller, the late pretended evidence now a prisoner in the King's-Bench, who was declared by the Honourable House of Commons, Nemine contradicente, to be a notorious imposter, a cheat, and a false accuser of persons of honour and quality with all his pranks and villainies, &c. to this present first of March. Kingston, Richard, b. 1635? 1692 (1692) Wing L2039; ESTC R4824 23,826 36

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