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A31027 A just defence of the royal martyr, K. Charles I, from the many false and malicious aspersions in Ludlow's Memoirs and some other virulent libels of that kind. Baron, William, b. 1636. 1699 (1699) Wing B897; ESTC R13963 181,275 448

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