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A81364 The designs and correspondencies of the present Committee of Estates and the part of the Scotish nation which is now entred into this kingdom in hostility, in some measure discovered by two packets of letters intercepted in the North, and sent up to the House of Commons. With an introductive and some marginal notes and animadversions, by a private pen. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that these letters by forthwith printed and published. H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D Com. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut 1648 (1648) Wing D1176; Thomason E459_5; ESTC R205079 16,674 21

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