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A18353 A true relation of two most strange and fearefull accidents, lately happening the one at Chagford in Deuonshire, by the falling of th[e] Stanary Court-house, the 6. day of March last. The other at Branson within a mile of Burton vpon Trent in Staffordshire, this present yeare 1618. Goodcole, Henry, 1586-1641, attributed name. 1618 (1618) STC 4932; ESTC S117531 7,081 14

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