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A57683 A sermon preached at a visitation in Honiton in Devon, on Wensday in Easter week, 1676 by J.R. Rector of Lezant in Cornwall. J. R. (James Rossington), b. 1642 or 3. 1676 (1676) Wing R1995; ESTC R23078 23,190 40

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