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A56284 Scotlands holy vvar a discourse truly, and plainly remonstrating, how the Scots out of a corrupt pretended zeal to the covenant have made the same scandalous, and odious to all good men, and how by religious pretexts of saving the peace of Great Brittain they have irreligiously involved us all in a most pernitious warre / by H.P. ... Parker, Henry, 1604-1652. 1651 (1651) Wing P421; ESTC R40061 65,174 82

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