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A91624 A remonstrance of the northern associations: communicating to the whole kingdome their miseries, desires and resolutions. Their miseries many. Their desires few. Their resolutions irrevocable. 1647 (1647) Wing R1007; Thomason E414_12; ESTC R203385 2,614 12

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