A History of the Gunpowder Plot: The Conspiracy and Its Agents

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Religious Tract Society., 1905 - Great Britain - 313 pages

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Contents

I
15
II
26
IV
33
V
36
VII
45
IX
52
X
59
XII
67
XX
120
XXI
141
XXII
153
XXIII
173
XXIV
185
XXV
196
XXVI
204
XXVII
214

XIV
81
XVI
97
XVII
102
XIX
115
XXVIII
237
XXX
255
XXXI
269
XXXII
283

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