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A61428 A discourse concerning the original of the povvder-plot together with a relation of the conspiracies against Queen Elizabeth and the persecutions of the Protestants in France to the death of Henry the fourth : collected out of Thuanus, Davila, Perefix, and several other authors of the Roman communion, as also reflections upon Bellarmine's notes of the church, &c. Stephens, Edward, d. 1706. 1674 (1674) Wing S5426; ESTC R19505 233,909 304

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