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A52642 England's advocate, Europe's monitor being an intreaty for help in behalf of the English silk-weavers and silk-throsters : shewing their misery, and the cause thereof, and what will only cure both them and the evils England's trade groans under, and other English manufacturers, from the like desolation : in a letter to a member of the Honourable House of Commons. A. N. 1699 (1699) Wing N2; ESTC R474 26,289 58

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