Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n
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A25561
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An Account of the present miserable state of affairs in Ireland as also, a relation of a late bloody fight between the papists and Protestants in that kingdom : with the particular number of the Protestants and Irish papists that were slain : together with a true narrative of the late K. James's entry in Dublin, and of the three several proclamations issued by him there.
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1689
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Wing A337; ESTC R15167
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