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A declaration of the officers and armies, illegall, injurious, proceedings and practises against the XI. impeached Members: : (not to be parallel'd in any age) and tending to the utter subversion of free Parliaments, rights, priviledges, freedome, and all common justice. And to introduce a meer arbitrary power in the very highest court of iustice

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: printed in the year, 1647.
Call number: 53753
Creator: Prynne, William (1600-1669)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 4to
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