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Queen Mary II lying in state. Etching by Joh. Overton.
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Queen Mary II lying in state. Etching by Joh. Overton.

John. Overton

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Lettering: The Queen leying in state who departed this life the 28 day of December 1694 to the great greefe of all good subiects. With mourning pen and melting eyes with bleeding heart, and sobbing cries here lament the loss of one, who was the brightness of the throne. Our loss is her eternal gain and yet we cannt but complain as having lost the sweetest queen as ever the realm was seen. Printed and sould by Joh: Overton att the White Horse without Newgate.

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