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| Title | Scotland in the Time of Queen Mary |
| Author | Peter Hume Brown |
| Publisher | Methuen & Company, 1904 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 243 pages |
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