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A62474 The histories of the gunpowder-treason and the massacre at Paris together with a discourse concerning the original of the Powder-Plot; proving it not to be the contrivance of Cecill, as is affirmed by the Papists, but that both the Jesuits and the Pope himself were privy to it. As also a relation of several conspiracies against Queen Elizabeth. Thou, Jacques-Auguste de, 1553-1617. 1676 (1676) Wing T1074A; ESTC R215716 233,877 303

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