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A51523 Two letters from Sir Charles Coote, Lord President of the Province of Connaght in Ireland to the Honourable VVilliam Lenthall, speaker of the Parliament relating the rendition of the towne and castle of Carickfergus, to Sir Charles Coote, together with the totall defeate of the Scottish and Irish forces in the north of Ireland, under the command of the Lord Ards, Lord Claneboys and Monro. Mountrath, Charles Coote, Earl of, ca. 1610-1661. 1650 (1650) Wing M2983; ESTC R10244 2,514 9

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