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A52386 To the Parliament of the Commonvvealth of England, and every individual member thereof The great complaint and declaration of about 1200. free-holders and commoners, within the mannor of Epworth, in the Isle of Axholm, and county of Lincoln, setting forth the plot and design of Mr. John Gibbon, and his fellow-projectors, to gain a posession of the said free-holders ancient inheritance, in their commonable grounds there, contrary to law. Humbly presented, and desired to be perused. Noddel, Daniel. 1654 (1654) Wing N1217B; ESTC R219394 19,166 32

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