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A85065 A faithfull and impartiall relation of what passed betweene His Majesty, and the commissioners from the two houses, both at the delivery of their votes for a personall treaty, and at their receiving His Majesties most gracious answer. By an eye and eare-witness, who not trusting to his memory, made use of his Pen: and for the truth of this relation, the relator appeales to the Commissioners themselves, or to any there present, who had the happinesse with him, to heare the most pious, most Christian expressions, of a most religious King. 1648 (1648) Wing F268; Thomason 669.f.13[3]; ESTC R202016 1,560 1

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