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A26328 A brief relation of the surprizing several English merchants goods by Dvtch men of warre their carrying them into Zealand and there condemning them for prize upon no other force or account but that they were English mens / by Edward Adams. Adams, Edward. 1664 (1664) Wing A477; ESTC R27092 10,081 15

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