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| Title | The life of sir Edward Coke, with memoirs of his contemporaries, Volume 1 The life of sir Edward Coke, with memoirs of his contemporaries, Cuthbert William Johnson |
| Author | Cuthbert William Johnson |
| Published | 1837 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 17 Oct 2006 |
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