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B15269 Letters conteyning sundry deuises touching the state of Flaunders and Portingall: written by Card. Granuelle and others, and lately intercepted and published. Granvelle, Antoine Perrenot de, 1517-1586. 1582 (1582) STC 19768; ESTC S101488 31,340 94

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