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186:A Collection of Chirurgical Tracts
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386:Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
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311:John Theophilus Desaguliers
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316:George Payne (1720–1721)
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1054:Robert Boyle-Walsingham
512:George, Prince of Wales
1059:Sir Robert de Cornwall
537:History of Freemasonry
122:Society of Antiquaries
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