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Crewe MS/36/pp. 1–4
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Speech by the Earl of Shaftesbury in the House of Lords, 25 Mar. 1679
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Prose. Headed: ‘My Lord Shaftbury’s Speech in the House of Lords, March 24th. 1678/9’ (the day of the month is wrong). First words: ‘My Lords | Your appointing of the Consideration of the State of England’.)
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Printed in An Impartial Account of Divers Remarkable Proceedings in the Last Session of Parliament (1679) (ESTC Nos. R11299, R229289, etc.), p. 15. According to George Hickes (The Spirit of Popery speaking out of the Mouths of Phanatical Protestants (1680), p. 71) the speech was previously issued as a single sheet, but no specimen survives.