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A56172 Historiarchos, or, The exact recorder being the most faithfull remembrancer of the most remarkable transactions of estate and of all the English lawes ... : as most elabourately they are collected ... out of the antiquities of the Saxon and Danish kings, unto the coronation of William the Conqueror, and continued unto the present government of Richard, now Lord Protector / by William Prynne, Esquire ...; Seasonable, legal, and historical vindication of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, properties, laws, government of all English freemen. Part 3 Prynne, William, 1600-1669.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Seasonable, legal, and historical vindication. 1659 (1659) Wing P3974; ESTC R14832 281,609 400

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