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A51081 A modest account of the present posture of affairs in England vvith particular reference to the Earl of Shaftsbury's case, and a vindication of him from two pretended letters of a noble peer / by a person of quality. Person of quality. 1682 (1682) Wing M2349; ESTC R10406 8,134 18

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