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A41193 Whether the Parliament be not in law dissolved by the death of the Princess of Orange? and how the subjects ought, and are to behave themselves in relation to those papers emitted since by the stile and title of Acts : with a brief account of the government of England : in a letter to a country gentleman, as an answer to his second question. Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714. 1695 (1695) Wing F765; ESTC R7434 52,609 60

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