Manuscripts, 1688, 1708.

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Manuscripts, 1688, 1708.

Copies, in an unknown hand, presumably after 1723, of two of Buckingham's works: "Some Account of the Revolution," and "A Feast of the Gods in Imitation of the Cesars [sic] of the Emperor Julian written in the Year 1708."

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