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| Title | Ancestral Stories and Traditions of Great Families Illustrative of English History |
| Author | John Timbs |
| Publisher | Griffith and Farran, 1869 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 428 pages |
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