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<titleStmt><title n="PolA1672"><title>A letter to Sir Thomas Osborn, one of his Majesties Privy Council, upon the reading of a book, called The present interest of England stated.</title>
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<publicationStmt><p>Distributed as part of the Lampeter Corpus</publicationStmt>
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<idNo type="Lamp">T118/1395</idNo>
<date>1672</date>
<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
<bookseller>Henry Brome</bookseller>
<pubFormat>quarto</pubFormat>
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<persName>[George Villiers, second duke of Buckingham]</persName>
<birth><date>1628</date> Westminster</birth>
<residence>London; Cambridge; Oxford; Italy; Holland; Scotland; imprisoned in Tower  (1658-59); London; Paris</residence>
<education>brought up with Charles I's children; Trinity College, Cambridge: MA  (1642)</education>
<occupation>vice-chancellor of the university of Cambridge; Lord-lieutenant of the West- Riding; privy councillor; member of Cabal administration; envoy to France;  lieutenant-general; writer</occupation>
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