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honour_n guilty_a lord_n steward_n 5,452 5 14.1598 5 true
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A25875 The arraignment, tryal and condemnation of Robert Earl of Essex and Henry Earl of Southampton, at Westminster the 19th of February, 1600 and in the 43 year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth for rebelliously conspiring and endeavouring the subversion of the government, by confederacy with Tyr-Owen, that popish traytor and his complices ... were the 5th of March ... arraigned, condemned, and executed ... Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601. 1679 (1679) Wing A3758; ESTC R18141 22,973 32

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