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Fair payment no spunge: or, some considerations on the unreasonableness of refusing to receive back money lent on publick securities. And the necessity of setting the nation free from the insupportable burthen of debt and taxes

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1717.
Call number: 433567
Creator: Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (8vo)
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