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A full and true account of a most dreadful and terrible accident, which happen'd on Sunday last : (being the 9th of this instant June) near Portsmouth, where 35 women, one man and several children were cast away, as going to the Isle of Wight, with the list of those that were drowned

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Publication date: 1706.
Call number: 29475
Dimensions: (1/2 sheet)
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