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A55466 Popish treachery, or, A short and new account of the horrid cruelties exercised on the Protestants in France being a true prospect of what is to be expected from the most solemn promises of Roman Catholick princes / in a letter from a gentleman of that nation, to one in England, and by him made English. Gentleman of that nation. 1689 (1689) Wing P2958; ESTC R1443 10,181 40

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