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A48420 The Life of that incomparable princess, Mary, our late sovereign lady, of ever blessed memory who departed this life, at her royal pallace at Kensington, the 28th of December, 1694. Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. 1695 (1695) Wing L2036; ESTC R12336 30,960 122

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