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A46101 An Impartial account of the misfortune that lately happened to the Right Honourable Philip, Earl of Pembrooke and Montgomery together with a true and just relation taken not onely from the constable that was then upon the watch, but from sober and eminent citizens of London that went down on purpose to know the bottom of that barbarous injury. 1680 (1680) Wing I71; ESTC R28941 1,931 6

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