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A33599 His Majesties propriety, and dominion on the Brittish seas asserted together with a true account of the Neatherlanders insupportable insolencies, and injuries, they have committed; and the inestimable benefits they have gained in their fishing on the English seas. As also their prodigious and horrid cruelties in the East and West-Indies, and other places. To which is added an exact mapp, containing the isles of Great Britain, and Ireland, with the several coastings, and the adjacent parts of our neighbours: by an experienced hand. Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.; Clavell, Robert, d. 1711, attributed name. 1672 (1672) Wing C4876B; ESTC R219456 66,598 191

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