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| Title | Debrett's Baronetage of England: Containing Their Descent and Present State, Their Collateral Branches, Births, Marriages, and Issue, from the Institution of the Order in 1611 ... Volume 1 of Debrett's Baronetage of England: Containing Their Descent and Present State, Their Collateral Branches, Births, Marriages, and Issue, from the Institution of the Order in 1611, John Debrett |
| Author | John Debrett |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | F.C. and J. Rivington, 1815 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Apr 26, 2007 |
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