P. P., CLERK OF THIS PARISH

P. P., CLERK OF THIS PARISH
   the feigned author of a volume of memoirs written by Arbuthnot in ridicule of Burnet's "History of My Own Times."

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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