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A45351 A sermon preach'd at the Castle of York to the condemned prisoners on Monday the 30th of March 1691 being the day before their execution : with an appendix which gives some account of them all, but more particularly of Mr. Edmund Robinson Clerk who was condemned and executed for high treason in counterfeiting the King's coyn / by George Halley. Halley, George, 1655 or 6-1708. 1691 (1691) Wing H455; ESTC R26651 21,825 37

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