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A58432 A relation of the barbarous and bloody massacre of about an hundred thousand Protestants, begun at Paris, and carried on over all France, by the Papists, in the year 1572 collected out of Mezeray Thuanus, and other approved authors. Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. 1678 (1678) Wing R814; ESTC R4018 28,718 48

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