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A89338 Englands warning-piece: shewing the nature, danger, and ill effects of civill-warre, and of those nations which have bin infested with it, described. Very necessary for these times wherein we are in so great feare and imminent danger of civill dissention. With a true relation of the miseries and distractions of Germany, France, Ireland, and Spaine. Also the sudden death of the Queen Mother of France. By Thomas Morton. Morton, Thomas, 17th cent. 1642 (1642) Wing M2837; Thomason E109_14; ESTC R7397 5,522 8

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