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Strange news of a most dreadful fire at Bedminster in Dorsetshire : which happened on Saturday June the 28th. 1684. and burnt to the ground the market-house, and an hundred and ten houses more, to the great terror of the inhabitants, and the loss of five or six thousand pound

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1684.
Call number: 642182
Provenance: Purchased from Antiquates Fine & Rare Books, May 2023.
Dimensions: 31 cm (1/2°)
Associated people: Mallet, Elizabeth,
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Strange news of a most dreadful fire at Bedminster in Dorsetshire : which happened on Saturday June the 28th. 1684. and burnt to the ground the market-house, and an hundred and ten houses more, to the great terror of the inhabitants, and the loss of five or six thousand pound

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