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A30328 A collection of eighteen papers relating to the affairs of church & state during the reign of King James the Second (seventeen whereof written in Holland and first printed there) by Gilbert Burnet ... Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. 1689 (1689) Wing B5768; ESTC R3957 183,152 256

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