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A39159
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An Elegy on the Right Honourable Sir John Chapman, Knt., lord mayor of the city of London who departed this life on Sunday the seventeenth of March, 1688/9, at his mansion-house at Grocers-Hall.
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Wing E436A; ESTC R36185
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