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A76741 The felicity of Queen Elizabeth: and her times, with other things; by the Right Honorable Francis Ld Bacon Viscount St Alban.; In felicem memoriam Elizabethae. English Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598. 1651 (1651) Wing B297; Thomason E1398_2; ESTC R17340 39,913 194

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