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A34438 Stratologia, or, The history of the English civil vvarrs in English verse : containing a brief account of all fights, most skirmishes, stratagems and sieges in England, from the very first originall of our late warres, till the martyrdome of King Charles the First of blessed memory / by an eye-witnesse of many of them, A.C. Cooper, Andrew, fl. 1660. 1660 (1660) Wing C6049; ESTC R20852 74,138 195

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