The plague in Colchester-1579-1666.
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The effects of the plague on a provincial town in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Essex archaeology and history : the transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society
دوره 4 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1972