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A63996 England's breath stopp'd being the counter-part of Jvdah's miseries lamented publickly in the New-Church at Westminster on January 30 being the anniversary of the martydom of King Charles the First of blessed memory / by Robert Twisse. Twisse, Robert, d. 1674. 1665 (1665) Wing T3416A; ESTC R967 16,659 42

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