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A Most excellent offer of a certaine inuention for a nevv kind of fire, being both cheape and good, and most necessary for all men, especially in these deare times of fuell.

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Coal trade - England - Early works to 1800

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A Most excellent offer of a certaine inuention for a nevv kind of fire, being both cheape and good, and most necessary for all men, especially in these deare times of fuell.