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A78464 Certain considerations: being the legitimate issue of a true English heart: presented to the free-holders, and to the free men of the several corporations in this nation; to regulate their elections of Members to serve in the next Parliament, to be holden the 25. of Aprill, 1660. 1660 (1660) Wing C1691; Thomason E765_8; ESTC R207146 8,330 7

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