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A65920 A reply to the answer of Lieutenant General Ludlow, or, His answer to the officers at Dublin examined with a concluding word to the present authoritie in Parliament / by E.W. E. W., an actor in the late change in Ireland. 1660 (1660) Wing W20; ESTC R26298 9,914 20

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