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A61421 Authority abused by the vindication of the last years transactions, and the abuses detected with inlargements upon some particulars more briefly touched in the Reflectons upon the occurrences of the last year : together with some notes upon another vindication, entituled, The third and last part of the magistry ans government of England vindicated / by the author of the Reflections. Stephens, Edward, d. 1706. 1690 (1690) Wing S5421; ESTC R15552 30,141 48

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