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A13574 A continuation of the lamentable and admirable adventures of Dom Sebastian king of Portugale With a declaration of all his time employed since the battell in Africke against the infidels 1578. vntill this present yeare 1603. Teixeira, José, 1543-1604. 1603 (1603) STC 23866; ESTC S101269 50,758 70

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