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A36530 Dreadful news from Hackney Marsh giving a true relation of the blowing up two powder mills : wherein were two hundred and sixty barrels of gun-powder, and the occasion of their taking fire : with a particular account of the number of the men and women kill'd, its tearing up the earth and trees ... 1690 (1690) Wing D2152A; ESTC R36102 1,425 1

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