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A89483 The manner and good successe of the Lord Brookes forces in pursuing the cavaliers from Coventry in a letter to an honourable person in London, August 24. 1642. 1642 (1642) Wing M456; Thomason 669.f.6[73]; ESTC R212500 940 1

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