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A35992 The compleat ambassador, or, Two treaties of the intended marriage of Qu. Elizabeth of glorious memory comprised in letters of negotiation of Sir Francis Walsingham, her resident in France : together with the answers of the Lord Burleigh, the Earl of Leicester, Sir Tho. Smith, and others : wherein, as in a clear mirror, may be seen the faces of the two courts of England and France, as they then stood, with many remarkable passages of state .../ faithfully collected by the truly Honourable Sir Dudly Digges, Knight ... Digges, Dudley, Sir, 1583-1639.; A. H.; Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590. 1655 (1655) Wing D1453; ESTC R22010 544,817 462

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