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A45674 The lamentable cry of oppression, or, The case of the poor, suffering & persecuted people called Quakers in and about Fakenham in Norfolk shewing the cruelty, injustice and inhumanity of several magistrates, officers and informers in those parts against the said people for these many years, in the great spoil and havock of their goods and estates ... / by ... Joseph Harrison. Harrison, Joseph.; Cater, Samuel, d. 1711. Postscript. 1679 (1679) Wing H898; ESTC R31092 29,850 90

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