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Miscellaneous poems with some remarks on the death of King Charles the II, and the happy succession of King James the II, in a poem to the magistracy of England / by John Whitehall.
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Whitehall, John, fl. 1679-1685.
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1685
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Wing W1867; ESTC R24550
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