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<titleStmt><title n="MscB1685"><title>An apology for the builder: or a discourse shewing the cause and effects of the increase of building</title>
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<publicationStmt><p>Distributed as part of the Lampeter Corpus</publicationStmt>
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<idNo type="Wing">B704</idNo>
<idNo type="Lamp">T373/2344</idNo>
<date>1685</date>
<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
<bookseller>Cave Pullen</bookseller>
<pubFormat>quarto</pubFormat>
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<persName>[Nicholas Barbon]</persName>
<birth><date>1648</date> London</birth>
<residence>London; Leyden; Utrecht; London</residence>
<education>studied medicine in Leyden; MD (1661) at Utrecht</education>
<occupation>writer; MP; builder; founder of fire insurance; founder of a land bank</occupation>
<socecstatus>professions (medicine)</socecstatus>
<socecstatuspat>freeman (tradesman)</socecstatuspat>
<biogNote>died 1698; honorary fellow of the College of Physicians</biogNote>
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<keywords scheme="lamTop"><term>demography</term><term> social geography</term></keywords>
<keywords scheme="lamGen"><term>apology</term><term> discourse</term></keywords>
<keywords scheme="lamStruc"><term>body</term></keywords>
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