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A86738 The humble desires of the knights, gentlemen, ministers, freeholders and inhabitants of the county and burrough of Leicester Delivered to His Excellency, the Lord Generall Monck, at St Albans the thirtieth day of Ianuary, 1659. by George Fawnt Esquire, High Sheriffe of the said county, William Boothby, Richard Orton, and Richard Halford Esquires, entrusted for that purpose by the body of the whole county. 1660 (1660) Wing H3414; Thomason 669.f.23[29]; ESTC R205558 841 1

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