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A20129 A proper new sonet declaring the lamentation [of Beckles in] Suffolke which was in the great winde vpon S. Andrewes eue last, past most pittifully burned with fire, to the losse by elimation of twentie thousande pound and vpwarde, and to the number of four score dwelling houses. 1586. Tow Wilsons tune. Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600. 1586 (1586) STC 6564; ESTC S114090 1,388 1

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