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Monthly Archives: April 2010
The Commons debates Whitefriars, 1697
The following account of the Commons debate on the 1697 act abolishing the sanctuaries is taken from William Cobbett’s Parliamentary History of England, vol 5., London 1809, column 1161. From where he got his source material I don’t know. This … Continue reading