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Crete Wonders foretold by her crete Prophet of Wales choose

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[UK] Crete Wonders foretold by her crete Prophet of Wales in E. Ashbee Facsimile Reprints n.p.: [as written] Tat [that] there shall also tis present yesre be [be] many crete [great] fires in . . . pick-hatch, Turnbull-street, the Myneries, Coven-Garden, te Strand, Holborne, and poth [both] te Friers, and other such religious places, where Venus Nunnes are cloystered, and Tom Tod and his fellow flesh-dressers do not quench those inflammations, many . . . shall have all their haire burnt off.
at flesh-dresser (n.) under flesh, n.
[UK] Crete Wonders foretold by her crete Prophet of Wales in E. Ashbee Facsimile Reprints n.p.: [as written] Tat [that] there shall also tis present yesre be [be] many crete [great] fires in [...] pick-hatch, Turnbull-street, the Myneries, Coven-Garden, te Strand, Holborne, and poth [both] te Friers, and other such religious places, where Venus Nunnes are cloystered.
at picked-hatch, n.
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