Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n
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A18302
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An answere to certaine scandalous papers, scattered abroad vnder colour of a Catholicke admonition
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Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, 1563-1612.
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1606
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STC 4895; ESTC S107637
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