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| Title | The Life of the Right Honorable John Philpot Curran: Late Master of the Rolls in Ireland |
| Author | William Henry Curran |
| Publisher | Redfield, 1855 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 8 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 535 pages |
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