An Act for the preventing of the multiplicity of buildings in and about the suburbs of London, and within ten miles thereof. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th day of September, An. Dom. 1656.

Great Britain.

Date:: 1657

Credit: An Act for the preventing of the multiplicity of buildings in and about the suburbs of London, and within ten miles thereof. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th day of September, An. Dom. 1656. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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