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A41187 A letter to the Right Honourable Sir John Holt, Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench; occasioned by the noise of a plot; Letter to the Right Honourable, my Lord Chief Justice Holt, occasioned by the noise of a plot. Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714. 1694 (1694) Wing F754A; ESTC R217367 28,048 20

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