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Title: An Heroic Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Craven (3rd Ed.)
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AN
HEROIC EPISTLE
To the RIGHT HONOURABLE
The LORD CRAVEN.
[Price ONE SHILLING.]
AN
HEROIC EPISTLE
To the RIGHT HONOURABLE
The LORD CRAVEN,
On his delivering the following SENTENCE at the COUNTY MEETING
at ABINGDON, on TUESDAY November 7, 1775.
I WILL HAVE IT KNOWN THERE IS RESPECT DUE TO A LORD.
"Room for my LORD! Virtue stand by and bow."
Churchill.
THE THIRD EDITION.
LONDON:
Printed for JOHN WHEEBLE, No. 22, Fleet-Street.
M,DCC,LXXVI.
AN
HEROIC EPISTLE
TO
LORD CRAVEN.
Too
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