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A94672 To the right honourable, the Parliament of the Common-Wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. The humble petition of Mary Countess of Sterling, and John Blount her husband, Sir Robert Crooke k ight [sic], and Dame Susan his wife, Henry Alexander, alias Zinzan, and Jacoba his wife, Sackville Glemham, and Peter Glemham (the said Countess dame Susan, Jacoba, Sackvile, and Peter Glemham, being grand-children of Sir Peter Vanlore the elder, deceased; and your petitioners the said Countess, Dame Susan, and Jacoba, being the right Heires of the said Sir Peter, and of Dame Mary Powel his daughter, (late the wife of Sir Edward Powel deceased) (that is to say) daughters and heires of Sir Peter Vanlore the younger (deceased) onely son and heire of the said Sir Peter the elder. Stirling, Mary Vanlore Alexander, Countess of, d. ca. 1660. 1654 (1654) Wing T1706C; Thomason 669.f.19[31]; ESTC R212326 6,081 1

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