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A33745 An answer to a paper importing a petition of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and six other bishops, to His Majesty, touching their not distributing and publishing the late declaration for liberty of conscience Care, Henry, 1646-1688. 1688 (1688) Wing C506; ESTC R5331 17,718 34

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