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A92253 Reasons humbly offered for preventing the exportation of wool, and for encouraging a free trade in English woollen manufacture to Flanders, Brabant, Zealand, Holland, VVest and East Friezland, Germany, Switzerland, and Hungary 1700 (1700) Wing R539; ESTC R42389 1,465 1

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