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A28845 A pastoral letter from the Lord Bishop of Meaux to the new Catholicks of his diocess exhorting them to keep their Easter, and giving them necessary advertisements against the false pastoral letters of their ministers : with reflections upon the pretended persecution / translated out of French, and publish'd with allowance.; Lettre pastorale. English Bossuet, Jacques BĂ©nigne, 1627-1704. 1686 (1686) Wing B3787; ESTC R12514 28,012 60

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