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A90657 Veritas inconcussa or, a most certain truth asserted, that King Charles the First, was no man of blood, but a martyr for his people. Together with a sad, and impartial enquiry, whether the King or Parliament began the war, which hath so much ruined, and undone the kingdom of England? and who was in the defensive part of it? By Fabian Philipps Esq;; King Charles the First, no man of blood: but a martyr for his people. Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690. 1660 (1660) Wing P2020; Thomason E1925_2; ESTC R203146 66,988 269

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