An Epitomy of English History: Wherein Arbitrary Government is Display'd to the Life, in the Illegal Transactions of the Late Times Under the Tyrannick Usurpation of Oliver Cromwell; Being a Paralell to the Four Years Reign of the Late King James, Whose Government was Popery, Slavery and Arbitrary Power, But Now Happily Delivered by the Instrumental Means of King William & Queen Mary

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N. Boddington at the Golden Ball in Duck lane, 1690 - 108 páginas
 

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Página 31 - if any man moved " this upon defign, he fhould think him the greateft traitor " in the world; but fmce providence and neceffity had " caft them upon it, he fhould pray God to blefs their coun-. " cils, though he was not provided on the fudden to give

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