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A70276 Divers historicall discourses of the late popular insurrections in Great Britain and Ireland tending all, to the asserting of the truth, in vindication of Their Majesties / by James Howell ... ; som[e] of which discourses were strangled in the presse by the power which then swayed, but now are newly retreev'd, collected, and publish'd by Richard Royston. Howell, James, 1594?-1666. 1661 (1661) Wing H3068; ESTC R5379 146,929 429

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