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A85977 A true and exact copy of Mr. Gibbons's speech which he intended to have spoken immediately before his death, on the scaffold at Tower Hill, August 22. 1651. Gibbons, John, d. 1651. 1651 (1651) Wing G661; Thomason E796_24; ESTC R207344 15,277 8

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