Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n
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A04813
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A relation of the second voyage to Guiana. Perfourmed and written in the yeare 1596. By Lawrence Kemys, Gent
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Kemys, Lawrence, d. 1618.
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1596
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STC 14947; ESTC S109262
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