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A39585 A narrative of the Irish popish plot for the betraying that kingdom into the hands of the French, massacring all Englidh Protestants there, and utter subversion of the government and Protestant-religion, as the same was successively carryed on from the year 1662 : given in to both Houses of Parliament / by David Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald, David. 1680 (1680) Wing F1072; ESTC R7381 34,384 38

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