Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

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book_n	author_n	find_v	write_v	2,528	5	5.1457	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80351	Bp Carletons testimonie concerning the Presbyterian discipline in the Low-Countries, and Episcopall government here in England. VVherein is briefly discovered the novelty of the one, and antiquity of the other; with a short taste of the inconveniences that attend the new plat-forme, where that is set up in the roome of the old primitive government. Published for the common good.	Carleton, George, 1559-1628.	1642 (1642)	Wing C585; Thomason E107_18; ESTC R2006	2,148	9

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