Autograph letter signed : "The Cockpitt" [London], to Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, [1689-1702] May 1.

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Autograph letter signed : "The Cockpitt" [London], to Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, [1689-1702] May 1.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270887032

Suggesting the bearer for a vacancy among "the poorest knights at Windsor."

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

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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