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A35931 The royalist's defence vindicating the King's proceedings in the late warre made against him, clearly discovering, how and by what impostures the incendiaries of these distractions have subverted the knowne law of the land, the Protestant religion, and reduced the people to an unparallel'd slavery. Dallison, Charles, d. 1669. 1648 (1648) Wing D138; ESTC R5148 119,595 156

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e._n 1._o coke_n calvin_n case_n b._n stat._n 33._o h._n 8._o cap._n 21._o coke_n 8._o foe_n 20._o b._n 12_o h._n 7._o 20_o h._n 8._o dyer_n 59_o 60._o 34_o e._n 1._o c._n 1._o statute_n of_o staple_n make_v 27_o e._n 3._o 7_o h._n 4._o cap._n 15._o 1_o h._n 5._o cap._n 1._o stat._n 33_o h._n 8._o cap._n 21._o coke_n 8._o foe_n 20._o 11_o h._n 7._o 27._o 7_o h._n 7._o 14._o dyer_n 59_o 60._o co._n 4._o inst_n p._n 25._o stat._n 24_o h._n 8._o ca._n 12._o coke_n 5._o f._n 28._o coke_n 8._o foe_n 20._o coke_n 7._o foe_n 36_o 37._o 2_o h._n 7._o 6._o co._n 7._o 14._o plo._n 502._o 〈◊〉_d f._n 59_o p._n 19_o coke_n 8._o foe_n 20._o 12_o h._n 7._o 20_o h._n 8._o plo._n 79_o 4_o h._n 7._o