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A22340 By the King a proclamation for the vtter prohibiting the importation and vse of all tobacco, which is not the proper growth of the colonies of Virginia and the Summer Islands, or one of them. England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625. 1625 (1625) STC 8751; ESTC S122820 6,661 4

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