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A81382 The devils cabinet-councell. Discovered or the mistery and iniquity of the good old cause. Laying open all the plots and contrivances of O. Cromwell, and the Long Parliament, in order to the taking avvay the life of his late Sacred Maiesty of blessed memory. 1660 (1660) Wing D1225; Thomason E2111_2; ESTC R212654 18,773 61

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