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A90858 Popish treachery, or, A short and new account of the horrid cruelties exercised on the Protestants in France being a true prospect of what is to be expected from the most solemn promises of Roman Catholick princes : in a letter from a gentleman of that nation, to one in England, and by him made English. 1689 (1689) Wing P2959; ESTC R181962 10,232 16

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