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A27512 A short view of the prelatical church of England laid open in ten sections by way of quere and petition to the High and Honourable Court of Parliament, the several heads whereof are set down in the next two pages / written a little before the fall of that hierarchie, about the year 1641, by Iohn Barnard, sometime minister of Batcomb in Somerset-shire ; whereunto is added The anatomy of The common-prayer. Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.; Bernard, John. 1661 (1661) Wing B2034; ESTC R17815 85,593 122

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