Autograph letter signed : [London], to Sir Robert Southwell, [1690] Jun. 2.

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Autograph letter signed : [London], to Sir Robert Southwell, [1690] Jun. 2.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270521993

Sending a list of the bishops he considers suitable for preferment and remarking on the incapacity of the archbishops to advise the King in the matter.

1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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