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A41868 Great and weighty considerations relating to the D[uke of York] or successor of the crown humbly offer'd to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty and both Houses of Parliament / by a true patriot. True patriot.; Hunt, Thomas, 1627?-1688. 1679 (1679) Wing G1660; ESTC R5871 12,981 12

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