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A83984 Englands petition to King Charles. Or, An humble petition of the distressed and almost destroyed subjects of England, to the Kings most excellent Majestie, now at the Isle of Wight, that ye would yeeld to His Parliament in all their reasonable demands in the treatie there. Containing the very sense of all the loyall-hearted true lovers of the King.; Englands petition to their King. 1648 (1648) Wing E3012; Thomason E462_21; ESTC R205074 5,054 8

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