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A67835 A breviary of the later persecutions of the professors of the gospel of Christ Jesus, under the Romish and antichristian prelats through Christendome, from the time of John VVickliff in the year of God 1371. to the raign of Queen Elizabeth of England, and the reformation of religion in Scotland: and of the cruell persecutions of the Christians under the Turkish emperors, with some memorable occurrences that fell out in these times through diverse realmes & countreys; collected out of the ecclesisticall history and book of martyrs, by Mr. Robert Young. Young, Robert, fl. 1674. 1674 (1674) Wing Y74; ESTC R218050 154,001 241

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