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A59298 The character of a popish successour, and what England may expect from such a one humbly offered to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament, appointed to meet at Oxford, on the one and twentieth of March, 1680/1. Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724. 1681 (1681) Wing S2670; ESTC R10639 28,586 24

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