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A94654 To the right honourable the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled The humble petition of many thousands of wel-affected inhabitants of the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Kent, Surrey, Hertford, Berks, Buckingham, Oxford, Bedford, Sussex, Northampton, Dorset, Somerset, Lancaster, Lincoln, Chester, Durham, Cumberland, Warwick and Worcester, against the intolerable oppression and undoing grievance of free quarter. 1647 (1647) Wing T1682; Thomason 669.f.11[104]; ESTC R210722 2,626 1

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