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B05546 Proclamation appointing twenty shillings to be payed for every boll of foreign victual that shall be imported Scotland. Privy Council.; Scotland. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William II) 1696 (1696) Wing S1711; ESTC R226077 1,662 1

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