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A89098 A speech delivered by Sir Audley Mervin Knight, His Majesties prime serjeant at law, and speaker of the House of Commons; to his grace James Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in the presence chamber in the castle of Dublin, the seventh of November, 1665 Mervyn, Audley, Sir, d. 1675.; Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688. 1665 (1665) Wing M1885; ESTC R233460 10,182 16

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