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A41163 A brief account of some of the late incroachments and depredations of the Dutch upon the English and of a few of those many advantages which by fraud and violence they have made of the British nations since the revolution, and of the means enabling them thereunto. Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714. 1645 (1645) Wing F731; ESTC R38871 64,396 76

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