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A53124 News from Bedlam, or, Tom of Bedlams obervations, upon every month and feastival time in this present year, 1674 VVith his general judgment of the state thereof, and what is like to happen in several parts of the vvorld, with the grand causes thereof. Calculated chiefly for the meridian of Great Bedlam, and the cross walks in Moor-fields, where the pole is elivated many miles above sense or apprehension. By Tom of Bedlam, Knight of the Frantic Horn, and student in mathematical gimcracks, whimsies, anticks, and others rare chymera's. With allowance. Tom, of Bedlam. 1674 (1674) Wing N948A; ESTC R218167 5,887 15

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