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A77431 A brief discourse of the present miseries of the kingdome: declaring by what practises the people of England have been deluded, and seduced into slavery, and how they have been continued therein, and by what meanes they may shake off that bondage, they are now enthraled under. / Written by a lover of his country, for the good of all such who are not contented to be slaves, but desire to live free-men. Lover of his country. 1648 (1648) Wing B4583; Thomason E467_24; ESTC R205268 21,615 31

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