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A51250 An address for submissive, peaceable, and loving living together under the present government to the people of the commonwealth of England, however by some called royalists, Presbyterians, independents, or fifth-monarchy-men / by Tho. Moore, senior. Moore, Thomas, Senior. 1656 (1656) Wing M2589A; ESTC R29036 24,462 35

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