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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Goodwin, Gordon (1889). "Ewer, Isaac". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 18. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 93.- Bate's Lives of Actors of Murder of Charles I (1661) pp. 136–7;
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