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The regal and ecclesiastical antiquities of England : containing the representations of all the English monarchs from Edward the Confessor to Henry the Eighth : together with many of the great persons that were eminent under their several reigns : on sixty copper plates, engraved by the author, the whole carefully collected from ancient illuminated manuscripts (1793)

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