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A57816 An answer to a scandalous paper of T. Hicks, term'd A rebuke to T.R. &c. with a reassumption our former complaint and charge against T. Hicks / by a lover of truth, Thomas Rudyard. Rudyard, Thomas, d. 1692. 1674 (1674) Wing R2176; ESTC R29339 14,120 48

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