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A40814 An account of the Isle of Jersey, the greatest of those islands that are now the only reminder of the English dominions in France with a new and accurate map of the island / by Philip Falle ... Falle, Philip, 1656-1742. 1694 (1694) Wing F338; ESTC R9271 104,885 297

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