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A26301 An account of what past on Monday the 28th of October, 1689, in the House of Commons, and since at the King's-Bench-Bar at Westminster, in relation to the Earl of Castlemaine Castlemaine, Roger Palmer, Earl of, 1634-1705.; England and Wales. Court of King's Bench. 1690 (1690) Wing A436; ESTC R1917 9,102 20

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