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The simple cobler of Aggawam in America. : Willing to help 'mend his native country, lamentably tattered, both in the upper-leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take. And as willing never to bee paid for his work, by old English wonted pay. It is his trade to patch all the year long, gratis. Therefore I pray gentleman keep your purses. (1647)

Ward, Nathaniel, 1578-1652 · London, : Printed by John Dever & Robert Ibbitson, for Stephen Bowtell, at the signe of the Bible in Popes Head-Alley, · leaf 2

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