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A96898 The Lords table. Whether it is to be spread like a table in an inne for all comers? That it ought not so be done is here maintained. Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675. 1656 (1656) Wing W3498; Thomason E880_7; ESTC R206596 63,848 77

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