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A72130 [A brief treatise containing the most strange and horrible cruelty of Elizabeth Stile alias Rockingham and her confederates, executed at Abingdon, upon R. Galis] Galis, Richard. 1579 (1579) STC 11537.5; ESTC S124945 18,810 29

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