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A43591 The famous and remarkable history of Sir Richard Whittington three times Lord Major of London, who lived in the time of King Henry the Fift, in the year 1419 : with all the remarkable passages and things of note which hapned [sic] in his time, with his life and death / written by T.H.; Whittington and his cat. Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641. 1656 (1656) Wing H1780; ESTC R10116 14,660 56

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