Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to [Sir Robert Southwell], [1690] Aug. 17.

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Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to [Sir Robert Southwell], [1690] Aug. 17.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270525343

Recommending Thomas Dumvil, Clerk of the Crown & Hanaper in the Chancery of Ireland, who married his niece's sister.

1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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