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A46853 The Jesuites firing-plot revived, or, A warning to house-keepers being the full and true relation how Elizabeth Owen, on the 8th of this instant November, set fire to the house of one Mr. Cooper, living in Fleetstreet between S. Dunstans Church and Fetter-lane-end, she being a servant in the said house ... 1680 (1680) Wing J715; ESTC R10490 2,520 6

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