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A50168 A farther impartial account of the actions of the Inniskilling-men containing the reasons of their first rising, their declarations, oaths, and correspondencies with several parts of the kingdom : together with many other remarkable passages of their behaviour and management, not yet published / written by Capt. William Mc-Carmick, one of the first that took up arms in Inniskilling, for the defence of that place, and the Protestant interest. McCarmick, William. 1691 (1691) Wing M116; ESTC R11414 46,392 74

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