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A10859 Nevves from Aleppo A letter written to T.V. B. of D. vicar of Cockfield in Southsex· By Charles Robson Master of Artes, fellow of Qu: Col: in Oxford, and preacher to the Company of our English Merchants at Aleppo. Containing many remarkeable occurrences obserued by him in his iourney thither. Robson, Charles, 1598-1638.; Vicars, Thomas, d. 1638. 1628 (1628) STC 21130; ESTC S116103 8,910 22

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