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A96050 A letter sent from the Right Honorable, Robert Earl of Warwick: to the Right Honorable, the speaker to the House of Peers: concerning the present state and condition, with the manner of the raising of the siege, of Lyme: with a relation of divers other remarkable passages concerning the Queen, the Prince, and the Lord Hopton, with the delivering up of Weymouth to the Parliament. Printed according to order. Warwick, Robert Rich, Earl of, 1587-1658. 1644 (1644) Wing W1006; Thomason E51_9; ESTC R244 1,986 8

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