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A28070 A charge given by the most eminent and learned Sr. Francis Bacon, Kt., late Lord Chancellor of England, at a sessions holden for the verge, in the reign of the late King James declaring the latitude of the jurisdiction thereof, and the offences therein inquireable, as well by the common-law, as by several statutes herein particularly mentioned. Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. 1662 (1662) Wing B276; ESTC R17806 9,379 23

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