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“August 1648: An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the better regulating and speedy bringing in the Sequestration-monies, arising out of the Real and Personal Estates of Papists and Delinquents already or hereafter to be sequestered, according to former Ordinances of Parliament.” In Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660. Edited by C. H. Firth and R. S. Rait. London: His Majesty’s StationeryOffice, 1911. 1186-1188. British History Online. Accessed July 5, 2021. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/acts-ordinances-interregnum/pp1186-1188.
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The Book of Common Prayer. London: John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1662.
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Epictetus. Epicteti Dissertationes ab Arriano Digestae. Edited and translated by Heinrich Schenkl. Leipzig: Teubner, 1916.
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Flatman, Thomas. Poems and Songs. London: S. and B. G. for Benjamin Took, 1674.
Francatelli, Charles Elmé. The Modern Cook. London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1846.
Gerard, John, and Thomas Johnson. The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton, and Richard Whitakers, 1633.
Gerbier, Sir Balthazar. The None-Such Charles his Character. London: R. I., 1651.
Grey, Elizabeth. A True Gentlewoman’s Delight Wherein is Contained all Manner of Cookery: Together with Preserving, Conserving, Drying and Candying. London: W. I. and G.D., 1653.
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May, Robert. The Accomplisht Cook, or, The Art and Mystery of Cookery Wherein the Whole Art is Revealed in a More Easie and Perfect Method than Hath been Publisht in any Language. London: R.W. for Nath[aniel] Brooke, 1660.
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