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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Bibliography
Pope's Conclave
[1640] The Pope's Conclave: or, A speech made by his Holinesse, upon the disastrous disappointment which the Romane cause has received by the late proceedings, and the great Covenant of Scotland
Primrose, David et al.; R. Bryson, Edinburgh, 1640