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order_n	day_n	month_n	year_n	2,428	5	5.3938	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38923	An Exact journal of the siege of Tangier from the first sitting down of the Moors before it on March 25, 1680 : to the late truce, May 19, following : in three letters / written by three eye-witnesses of the whole transaction.		1680 (1680)	Wing E3649; ESTC R8717	10,856	16

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