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A37358 A Present remedy for the poor, or, The most probable means to provide well for the poor of the nation to free us in time from paying the poors rates, and deliver us now from the publick nusance of beggars, humbly submitted to the wisdom of the next sessions of Parliament. M. D. 1700 (1700) Wing D62; ESTC R14418 11,317 16

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